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JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli parliament on Wednesday passed the first reading of a bill requiring a referendum to approve a pull-out from annexed east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as part of any peace deal. Full Story »
VERACRUZ, Mexico - Mexican prosecutors say they have arrested a suspect wanted by the FBI in the 2004 rapes of two young girls in Pennsylvania. Full Story »
Potsdam, Germany - Handsome villas on Karl Marx street here look out on the bending Griebnitzsee River. In one villa, occupied by Harry Truman in July 1945, history itself would fatefully bend. Full Story »
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday there was no deal for now between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas on freeing an Israeli soldier held in Gaza. Full Story »
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The impacts of climate change have worsened almost every year since 1980, according to a study on Wednesday inspired by the Dow Jones stock index that distils global warming into a single number. Full Story »
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Five North Korean artists have been banned from entering Australia for an exhibition of their work, the government said Wednesday, drawing accusations of censorship from the arts community. Full Story »
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KABUL - The No. 2 commanding general in Afghanistan acknowledged Wednesday that a NATO-led attack the day before in eastern Afghanistan possibly resulted in civilian deaths. Full Story »
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RAFAH, Egypt (AFP) - Egyptian engineers were carrying out major excavation work at the Gaza border on Wednesday as an Israeli daily reported that an anti-smuggling barrier was under construction, an AFP reporter said. Full Story »
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US officials said Wednesday they were working with Pakistani authorities who arrested five foreigners, including a Pakistani-American, on suspicion of plotting a militant attack. Full Story »
CONAKRY, Guinea - The No. 2 of Guinea's military junta on Wednesday made his first public speech since the last weeks' assassination attempt on the country's military strongman. Full Story »
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GAZA (Reuters) - Egyptian earth-moving machinery was at work on the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday and an Israeli newspaper said a project was under way to build a subterranean metal wall to block Palestinian smuggling tunnels. Full Story »
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KABUL - President Hamid Karzai's promise to fight the rampant graft and bribery plaguing his government has hit a road bump — right down the street from his palace. Despite a corruption conviction, the mayor of Kabul remains in charge of the Afghan capital. Full Story »
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JERUSALEM (AFP) - The European parliament demanded on Wednesday that Israel explain why it prevented a delegation of MEPs from travelling to the Gaza Strip despite initially authorising the visit. Full Story »
Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum contains one of the world's most prized art collections. But now a mother-son legal battle has its fate up in the air Full Story »
ASUNCION, Paraguay - When he was a Roman Catholic bishop, Fernando Lugo taught liberation theology to uplift the poor. Now president, he is in the uncomfortable position of sending special forces into Paraguay's northern forests to hunt kidnappers whose leaders include a former student and his former altar boy. Full Story »
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Where some see only an edible, hog-sized jungle rodent, others see economic opportunity. Full Story »
JOHANNESBURG - The Red Cross says they need $32 million to feed 220,000 Zimbabweans who cannot access hard currency in the collapsed economy. Full Story »
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday a prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas was still stuck on the question of which prisoners Hamas wants in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier. Full Story »
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