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Car bombs target Iraq Shi'ites, killing 43

BAGHDAD - At least 43 people were killed in car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi capital and the southern oil hub of Basra on Monday, police and medics said. | Video

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Five dead in Israeli bank robbery

JERUSALEM - A bank robbery in Israel on Monday ended with the deaths of five people, including one of the holdup men who apparently shot and killed himself when police launched a raid to free hostages.

8:20am EDT

South Sudan army says retakes town from rebels in east

JUBA - South Sudan's army has retaken an eastern town captured by rebels two weeks ago, a military spokesman said on Monday, in a conflict that has uprooted thousands of people and hampered government plans to explore for oil.

Africa, United Nations 8:31am EDT

Subsidy reform dispute imperils Morocco's ruling coalition

RABAT - Morocco's junior government party is threatening to quit the coalition unless Islamist prime minister Abdelilah Benkirane moderates plans for sweeping cuts to subsidies on food and energy.

8:23am EDT

Former Pakistani dictator Musharraf granted bail

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination.

6:33am EDT

Thirty Hezbollah fighters killed in Syrian town: activists

AMMAN - About 30 fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were killed in heavy fighting with rebels in the town of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.

Syria 7:30am EDT