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ANKARA, Turkey - Patrons of a usually smoke-filled hookah bar stepped outside to light up Sunday as Turkey extended a ban on indoor public smoking to bars, restaurants and coffeehouses.
MOSCOW - When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for the Soviet Union the first time the U.S. had beaten the U.S.S.R in the space race.
MOSCOW - Russian aviation agency tells news agencies 15 dead in Kandahar, Afghanistan helicopter crash.
GENEVA - A U.N. labor tribunal ordered the global body's weather agency to pay damages to a former auditor fired in 2006 after clashing with the organization's top official over a corruption probe.
NEW YORK - A handyman at a skyscraper near the World Trade Center pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges he murdered a cleaning woman and hid her body in the tower's ventilation system.
BEIRUT - Villagers threw stones at U.N. peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon Saturday, lightly injuring 14 soldiers, in an attempt to prevent an investigation near the site of a recent explosion, a spokeswoman said.
ROME - An Italian aid worker held captive in the Philippine jungle for six months by al-Qaida-linked militants returned home to celebrations in his small Tuscan town on Saturday.
ULLAPOOL, Scotland - An unholy row has broken out over a ferry company's decision to sail on Sunday between a remote Scottish island and the mainland.
ROME - For the first time in Italy's wine-steeped history, a city government has banned alcohol for those under 16 in an effort to curb drinking problems among youths.
MOSCOW - The respected Russian human rights group Memorial is stopping work at its office in the republic of Chechnya after the kidnapping and killing of one of its most daring activists, a Russian radio station quoted an official of the group as saying Saturday.
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