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Ukrainian zoo prides itself on new white lion cubs
KIEV, Ukraine – A private zoo in Ukraine has a new attraction: five white lion cubs. Volodymyr Shevchuk, director of…
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MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a meeting of the country’s top brass to discuss boosting security in…
Read MoreGuam archbishop says he’s a victim, welcomes Vatican envoy
VATICAN CITY – The archbishop of Guam says he welcomes the appointment of a Vatican administrator to run the Catholic…
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Putin agrees to suspend Russian flights to Egypt after crash as pieces of plane brought to Moscow for inspection
Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended all Russian flights to Egypt Friday until security is improved there, nearly one week after…
Read MoreWhy Turkey’s election doesn’t matter
Almost every assessment of the national parliamentary election to take place in Turkey on June 7 rates it among the…
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Imagine a dog that survived being bombed from the air, the warship she was on sunk from under her. Pretty…
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2 killed after bomb explodes near police station in southern Egypt
CAIRO – An Egyptian security official says a bomb went off near a police station and mosque in the southern…
Read MoreEgypt’s army, police blamed for deadly soccer riot
Witnesses say scores of Egyptian soccer fans were stabbed to death while many others suffocated, trapped in a long narrow…
Read MoreEgypt’s Transitional Government Struggles to Retain Stability
CAIRO, Egypt – As Egypt struggles to return to normal just three days after former president Hosni Mubarak resigned, hundreds…
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