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Syria tension destabilizing Lebanon
An uneasy calm prevailed Thursday morning in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli where days of clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad left 16 people dead and wounded more than 156.
Categories: International News
Man kills himself in front of tourists
A right-wing historian and author killed himself inside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Tuesday in front of horrified tourists, police said.
Categories: International News
Riots break out in Swedish capital
Rioting has broken out for the past three nights in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, with scores of cars set alight and violent clashes between police and youths.
Categories: International News
Genocide conviction overturned
When former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of genocide and sentenced to 80 years in prison this month, it was not expected to be the end of story.
Categories: International News
Jobless claims fall, pointing to better May
Claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, signaling the job market may be strengthening slightly in May.
Photographer escaped the Taliban
In his first television interview, photographer Pierre Borghi describes his kidnapping and escape from a Taliban prison.
Categories: International News
Sean Penn irks Bolivian minister
Actor Sean Penn, a friend of Bolivian President Evo Morales, nonetheless angered the South American country's government after his call for the release of a U.S. businessman who has been imprisoned since 2011.
Categories: International News
Haitian girl's 'big school' dream
Thirteen-year-old Rose Matrie lives in a cracked house. It's an ever-present reminder of the earthquake that struck her home in Haiti and devastated the country. Still, the young student has big dreams for her future.
Categories: International News
Getting fit for summer
Categories: Health
'Sickening attack' shakes Britain
Two men used a meat cleaver to hack a British soldier to death in broad daylight before dumping his body in the middle of a London road. "This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth," said one of the attackers.
Categories: International News
Eurozone business still going backwards
Europe's persistent downturn is showing few signs of abating.
Japanese man becomes oldest to climb Everest
An 80-year-old Japanese man on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mt. Everest, officials said.
Categories: International News
Prostitutes gunned down in troubled Pakistan province
Gunmen shot dead five people, including four prostitutes, in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province Thursday morning, police said.
Categories: International News
5-year-old girl killed by suicide jumper in South Korea
A 5-year-old South Korean girl was killed when a man who jumped from his 11th floor apartment landed on top of her, police said.
Categories: International News
Mavs want trade for Howard, Paul?
Categories: National Sports
Army suspends general
The Army has suspended the top general at Fort Jackson in South Carolina due to allegations of adultery and assault, an Army spokesman says.
Categories: National News
JLo's new gig: Verizon retailer
Jennifer Lopez has found a new gig: majority shareholder and chief creative mind behind a new line of Verizon Wireless retail stores.
Bitcoin more powerful than fastest supercomputers
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