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PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Police in Papua New Guinea stormed the Supreme Court in the capital and arrested the nation's top judge on sedition charges on Thursday, in response to its ruling that the prime minister held power illegally and should step down. On the day...(more)
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A work by Cuban surrealist painter Wifredo Lam sells for $4.5m at an auction in New York, a record price for one of his works.
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Seven people, including five five firefighters, are injured in a fire on a nuclear-powered submarine in the US state of Maine.
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Pentagon and CIA papers show the agencies granted privileges to director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, including access to a Navy SEAL and a CIA 'vault.' There is no indication that classified information was shared.WASHINGTON — In the months after the U.S. militarymission that killed...(more)
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Jurors complete a fourth day of deliberations in the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards. They will resume Thursday. GREENSBORO, N.C. — For a fourth day Wednesday, the jury in the John Edwards trial deliberated without reaching a verdict in a case focused...(more)
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Iranian negotiators on Thursday rejected proposals by six world powers to curb Tehran's nuclear program, and demanded answers to their own counteroffer meant to alleviate concerns about Iran's ability to build atomic weapons.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
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Press freedom watchdogs have called on the Israeli military to release the director of a Palestinian TV station who was detained last Thursday (17 May).Israeli soldiers arrested Baha Khairi Moussa, who runs the Palestine Prisoner Channel, a satellite broadcaster based in the West Bank. They also...(more)
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Chen Guangfu arrives in Beijing after following in blind activist's footsteps in making daring escape from village in eastern ChinaThe brother of the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his family's captors in a second audacious escape from their tiny village in eastern China.Chen Guangfu arrived...(more)
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'Even if we need to be arrested 22 times I am ready for it,' says Alexei Navalny after serving time on charges of resisting a police officerThe Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has vowed to continue his fight against the regime of Vladimir Putin after his...(more)
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The crisis in Europe has made it clear the EU needs more than economic reform. Going forward requires political restructuringWith the election of François Hollande as French president, the left and right in Europe have now entered intense negotiation over the best way to enact economic...(more)
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A new generation of young women in Britain are being forced to re-fight the battle for abortion rights. Guest post by The Pod Delusion's Liz LutgendorffLast week I attended the Pro-Choice Parliamentary Meeting, organized by Abortion Rights, where those interested in preserving abortion access for women...(more)
