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Bosnia court orders retrial of U.S. embassy attacker

Reuters July 12, 2013 - 14:54 SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian appeals court revoked on Friday an 18-year jail sentence against an Islamist radical for a 2011 gun attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo...

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Cuban food ration system marks 50 years amid controversy

Reuters July 12, 2013 - 16:24 By Rosa Tania Valdes HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's food-rationing system marked 50 years on Friday amid controversy, with President Raul Castro facing popular resistance to...

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Uganda army says fears rebels influx after eastern Congo attack

Reuters July 12, 2013 - 16:38 By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda linked rebels have attacked a town in eastern Congo, forcing thousands of refugees flee across the border into Uganda...

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Romania sentences transport minister to jail for graft

Reuters July 12, 2013 - 16:26 BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Transport Minister Relu Fenechiu was handed a five year prison sentence for corruption on Friday, becoming the country's first government...

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Violence flares around Northern Ireland marches

Reuters July 12, 2013 - 20:28 BELFAST (Reuters) - Protestant marchers in Belfast threw objects at police, who responded with water cannon as Northern Ireland's annual parade season descended into...

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U.S. expresses 'deep concern' about South Sudan violence

Reuters July 13, 2013 - 01:02 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday expressed "deep concern" about reports of killings, beatings and looting in South Sudan's eastern state of Jonglei and...

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Quebec town marks deadly train crash with vigil, church bells

Reuters July 13, 2013 - 05:28 By Phil Wahba LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - A week after their town was devastated by one of the worst train accidents in Canadian history, residents of Lac-Megantic,...

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Iraq foreign minister says can't stop Iran arms flights to Syria

Reuters July 13, 2013 - 09:17 RIYADH (Reuters) - Iraq is unable to stop its neighbour Iran transferring weapons to Syria through its airspace, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in a newspaper...

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Armies of the past, present and future

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Obama urges Republican-led House to pass immigration overhaul

Reuters July 13, 2013 - 11:16 By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama stepped into the fray in the U.S. Congress over immigration on Saturday, urging Americans to press the...

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Russia says no asylum request yet from fugitive Snowden

Reuters July 13, 2013 - 11:43 By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia kept former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden at arm's length on Saturday, saying it had not been in touch with the...

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Track fault may have caused French train crash-SNCF

Reuters July 13, 2013 - 14:35 By Pauline Ades-Mevel BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France (Reuters) - The train derailment that killed at least six people in central France on Friday may have been caused by a...

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Bank whistleblower faces criminal backlash

Business Banks in turmoil 1 comments Readers Recommend Image Caption: Reyl is fighting back with its own accusations. (Keystone) July 13, 2013 - 16:27 A former private banker has been arrested in...

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Swiss arrest witness linked to French minister in tax scandal

Reuters July 13, 2013 - 18:16 ZURICH (Reuters) - A key witness in the investigation against France's former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac has been arrested by Swiss authorities, the Swiss...

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Suspected militants killed in Pakistan drone strike

Reuters July 14, 2013 - 08:04 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least two suspected foreign militants were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's volatile border region of North Waziristan, local...

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Zimbabwe police, soldiers cast early votes contested by PM

Reuters July 14, 2013 - 10:24 HARARE (Reuters) - Police officers and soldiers who will be on duty during Zimbabwe's July 31 election began voting on Sunday, the eve of a court hearing to stop the...

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Myanmar leader visits Britain, may be challenged on human rights

Reuters July 15, 2013 - 01:06 By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - President Thein Sein, the first leader of Myanmar to visit Britain in more than a quarter of a century, will hold talks on Monday with...

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Senior U.S. official visits Egypt as Islamists plan more protests

Arab Spring Reuters July 15, 2013 - 01:08 By Shadia Nasralla and Ulf Laessing CAIRO (Reuters) - The first senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since the army toppled the country's elected president...

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Detained Iranian diplomat released on bail after four months

Reuters July 15, 2013 - 02:46 By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists was released from a Tehran prison on bail on Sunday after four...

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Bangladesh sentences former Islamist party chief to life

Reuters July 15, 2013 - 08:57 DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced a top Islamist party leader to life imprisonment on Monday, as violence broke out across the...

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