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French security forces kill gunmen, end terror rampage
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Lori Hinnant and Elaine Ganley, Associated Press 
Jan 10, 2015
PARIS — With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida-linked brothers who stag...
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WWII Museum tour 70 years after Battle of Bulge
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JANET McCONNAUGHEY, Associated Press 
Dec 16, 2014
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A tour connected to the National World War II Museum is taking three dozen people to the battlefields and towns in Belgium where th...
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With warped vision, Gadhafi maddened Libya, West
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KIM GAMEL, Associated Press LEE KEATH, Associated Press 
Oct 20, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — During nearly 42 years in power in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi was one of the world's most eccentric dictators, so mercurial that he ...
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Ex-warlord becomes kingmaker in Liberia ballot
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JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press 
Oct 13, 2011
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A rebel leader who videotaped himself drinking Budweiser as his men cut off the ears of the nation's former president has fin...
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Mexico says a leader of fading cartel caught
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MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press 
Oct 05, 2011
MEXICO CITY (AP) — One of the last major leaders of the pseudo-religious La Familia drug gang has been captured, Mexican officials said Wednesday, an ...
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8 Afghan policemen killed at checkpoint
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RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press 
Sep 28, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen killed eight policemen at checkpoint in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while the United Nations said the average ...
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Pope sculptor gets second chance
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FRANCES D?EMILIO Associated Press 
Sep 28, 2011
ROME (AP) — He was pilloried by the Vatican for creating a sculpture of Pope John Paul II that some mockingly say looks more like Fascist dictator Ben...
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Nuclear engineer assassinated in central Syria
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Zeina Karam, Associated Press 
Sep 28, 2011
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian nuclear engineer was assassinated in a hail of bullets in central Syria Wednesday, the latest casualty in a string of murders t...
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Mideast negotiations appear to remain elusive
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AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press 
Sep 22, 2011
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. and European powers were pressuring for resumed Mideast negotiations on Thursday as part of an intensive international ...
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