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China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 180
Full Article The Times of India
21 Apr 2013

YA'AN: Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters. The earthquake Saturday morning triggered landslides that cut off...

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Residents rest near tents set up for evacuees of Saturday's earthquake near Shangli town in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Sunday, April 21, 2013.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

updated 13 May 2008; published 13 May 2008
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Part of road, air transport halted in Sichuan - May 13
updated 05 Sep 2008; published 05 Sep 2008
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China earthquake,67,183 dead
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE in China - Dozens die and hundreds hurt in Sichuan
updated 16 May 2008; published 16 May 2008
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China earthquake response, faster than US Katrina response!
updated 16 May 2008; published 16 May 2008
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CCTV-9: More than 60,000 people rescued in Sichuan
updated 13 May 2008; published 13 May 2008
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Rescue efforts underway after earthquake - May 13
Boston bombing investigation turns to motive
Full Article Khaleej Times
21 Apr 2013

The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings lay seriously wounded and unable to speak in a hospital on Saturday as investigators worked to determine a motive and whether the two ethnic Chechen brothers accused of the attack acted alone. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured late on Friday after a gunfight with police that ended a daylong...

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In this Friday, April 19, 2013 photo obtained by The Associated Press and authenticated by a member of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ATF and FBI agents check suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for explosives and also give him medical attention after he was apprehended in Watertown, Mass., at the end of a tense day that began with his older brother, Tamerlan, dying in a getaway attempt.
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updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Terrorism Expert: Possible Motive in Boston Bombing of the 2 young Russian Tsarnaevs
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Boston Marathon bombing investigation turns to motive
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Boston bombing motives still unclear
updated 21 Apr 2013; published 21 Apr 2013
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Reuters News - Boston Marathon, Barack Obama, Federal Aviation Administration, Canada
updated 16 Apr 2013; published 16 Apr 2013
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Obama: motive for Boston marathon bomb attack unclear
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Protests erupt in Delhi; rape accused nabbed in Bihar
Full Article The Hindu
20 Apr 2013

Even as protests against the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl in the Gandhi Nagar area of East Delhi snowballed into widespread public outrage, the 22-year-old casual worker accused of the crime was brought here on Saturday. Manoj Sah was tracked down to his in-laws’ place in Bihar by the State Police in coordination with their...

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All India MSS  Women Supporters hold the placard to Protest against recent rape case in Delhi at Kolkata on Saturday 20 April 2013
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Delhi minor rape: Action will be taken against accused, assures Shinde
updated 21 Apr 2013; published 21 Apr 2013
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Delhi: Minor rape survivor in hospital, more protests expected today
updated 23 Dec 2012; published 23 Dec 2012
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Delhi gangrape: Sonia Gandhi wants exemplary punishment for rape accused
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Delhi gang-rape case: Sonia Gandhi meets protesters, assures justice
updated 21 Apr 2013; published 21 Apr 2013
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Workers of BJP Mahila Morcha protest outside the residence of Sonia Gandhi
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Delhi Rape: Protest at Police headquarter
Iraq’s First Election Since Exit of U.S. Troops Is Largely Peaceful
Full Article The New York Times
20 Apr 2013

BAGHDAD — Iraq held its first election since the withdrawal of American troops under security so tight on Saturday that the only way for many voters to reach polling stations was to walk. But the election, for local councils, was carried out largely free of violence, even as apathy prevailed among many Iraqis who questioned what benefits they...

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An Iraqi woman casts her ballot at a polling center during the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013.
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban

updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
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Iraq car bomb blast in Shia market leaves more than 20 dead
updated 19 Mar 2013; published 19 Mar 2013
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Iraq: Deadly Bombings On Invasion Anniversary
updated 08 Feb 2013; published 08 Feb 2013
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Iraq: Aftermath of market car bombings, approximately 40 killed
updated 16 Apr 2013; published 16 Apr 2013
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English News Today - 'Al-Qaeda scaring Iraqi public in run up to the election'
updated 01 Jan 2013; published 01 Jan 2013
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Iraq Sunnis Say Topple Maliki Shia Terror Regime! 12 30 12 USA Created Shiite Frankenstein State
updated 01 Feb 2013; published 01 Feb 2013
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Sunnis gather in Baghdad to demand Maliki's Downfall
He's Back: Italy President Agrees to Another Term
Full Article CNBC
20 Apr 2013

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano agreed on Saturday to serve a second term after a divided parliament failed for a fifth time to elect his successor and risked prolonged political paralysis. The presidency is a largely ceremonial position but is crucial at times of political instability like the present, when the president plays a major role in...

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 In this photo provided by the Italian Presidency, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano meets Italian members of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, France, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007. (sa0)
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updated 18 Apr 2013; published 18 Apr 2013
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Italian parliament fails to elect state president
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Italy to elect new president amid political impasse
updated 22 Mar 2013; published 22 Mar 2013
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Italy:Bersani asked to form government
updated 30 Mar 2013; published 30 Mar 2013
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Italy: Napolitano may quit early to end political deadlock
updated 18 Apr 2013; published 18 Apr 2013
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Italian parliament fails to elect state president - Lastest News
updated 09 Nov 2011; published 09 Nov 2011
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Silvio Berlusconi RESIGNS as Italy Prime Minister -- News Story
Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured
Full Article France24
20 Apr 2013

The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken into custody by police in Watertown, Massachusetts on Friday following a massive manhunt that shut down much of the Boston Area and left his brother dead. By News Wires (text) Police captured a 19-year-old ethnic Chechen suspected of carrying out the Boston...

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File - An FBI release shows one of the suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon Bombings.
photo: FBI

updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Boston bombings: Manhunt continues for suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev in Boston Marathon bombings
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Boston bombings: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev captured by police
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Second Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev In Police Custody
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Classmate: He Was A 'Nice, Funny Guy'
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Boston Bombing Suspect #2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Captured
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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The BOAT where Boston bombing suspect was Capture!!!
New Venezuela President Sworn in, but Officials Will Audit Vote
Full Article The New York Times
20 Apr 2013

CARACAS, Venezuela — In the carnival-mirror world of Venezuelan politics, Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as president on Friday, just hours after election officials agreed to carry out a partial recount of the vote result, which opponents hoped could lead to its being overturned. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for...

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venezuela's President-elect Nicolas Maduro waves to supporters as he arrives at the national Assembly for his inaugural ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 19, 2013.
photo: AP / Gil Montano

updated 09 Mar 2013; published 09 Mar 2013
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Nicolas Maduro sworn in as Venezuelan acting president
updated 16 Apr 2013; published 16 Apr 2013
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Inside Story Americas- What's coming next for Venezuela?
updated 17 Apr 2013; published 17 Apr 2013
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Latest World News - Inside Story Americas- What next for Venezuela?
updated 17 Apr 2013; published 17 Apr 2013
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English News Today - Inside Story Americas- What next for Venezuela?
updated 17 Apr 2013; published 17 Apr 2013
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Maduro: Opposition march will not enter in Caracas
updated 15 Apr 2013; published 15 Apr 2013
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Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela, The Winner Of The Presidential Election
Italian Lawmakers Fail a 4th Time to Elect a President
Full Article The New York Times
19 Apr 2013

ROMEItalian lawmakers failed for the fourth time to elect a president on Friday when the center-left candidate, former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, was unable to muster enough support among the 1,007 electors in Parliament. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List:...

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Lawmakers wait for their turn to vote a new President at the lower chamber, in Rome, Thursday, April 18, 2013.
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia

updated 17 Mar 2013; published 17 Mar 2013
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Italy's divided parliament finally elects speakers
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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ITALY'S "WHOREMONGERING FATHERS"!
updated 27 Feb 2013; published 27 Feb 2013
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ETX Capital Daily Market Bite, 27th February, 2013: Markets Steady But Fragile On Italy Woes
updated 20 Feb 2013; published 20 Feb 2013
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Politics News - John Kerry, Scott Olson, Bulgaria government, Rome
updated 25 Feb 2013; published 25 Feb 2013
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Boko Haram "has its own agenda"
updated 14 Mar 2013; published 14 Mar 2013
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Gay Agenda 3-13-13: Vatican's Gay Sauna, Boy Scouts Survey, and Homophobia Quiz
F.A.A. Endorses Boeing Remedy for 787 Battery
Full Article The New York Times
19 Apr 2013

Three months after Boeing’s 787 passenger jets were grounded, the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday approved the company’s plans to fix the plane’s batteries, a decision that could allow the planes to return to service within weeks. Add to Portfolio Boeing Company Go to your Portfolio » Agency inspectors will oversee...

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A Boeing 777-367 (ER) Cathay Pacific jet is guided to a parking spot by a marshaller at Paine Field Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, in Everett, Wash.
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updated 25 Jan 2013; published 25 Jan 2013
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Nothing ruled out as NTSB studies Dreamliner battery
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Boeing's Dreamliner nightmare
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
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Battery Glitch Grounds Boeing's Dreamliner in Japan
updated 17 Jan 2013; published 17 Jan 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Boeings Dreamliner Nightmare
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Boeing: Buy, Sell or Hold?
updated 18 Jan 2013; published 18 Jan 2013
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Inside Story - Boeing's Dreamliner nightmare
Tensions high as manhunt continues for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Full Article Detroit Free Press
19 Apr 2013

BOSTON — The city and its suburbs remain in lockdown this afternoon as a massive manhunt intensifies for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. The search comes just hours after the suspect's older brother was killed in a dramatic shoot-out with police in nearby Watertown. Authorities are focusing their hunt in Watertown for...

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An FBI release shows two suspects wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon Bombings, 15 April, 2013.
photo: FBI

updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Uncle of Boston Marathon Bombing Brothers Dzhokhar & Tamerlan Tsarnaev Speaks to News Agency
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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The BOAT where Boston bombing suspect was Capture!!!
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Boston bombing suspects identified as Tsarnaev brothers from Russia, near Chechnya
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Mother & Father Of Boston Bombing Suspects Speak Out!
updated 19 Apr 2013; published 19 Apr 2013
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Boston Bombing Suspect #1 Killed - Suspect #2 on the Run
updated 20 Apr 2013; published 20 Apr 2013
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Boston Bombing Manhunt: Bloodied Body of Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Found In Boat

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U.S. security officials have been warning for years that one of their biggest challenges is detecting homegrown terrorists — extremists who grow up in America, or have lived here...
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After last Sunday's disputed electoral victory by Chávez heir Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, it seemed, was a country on the brink. Many commentators assumed that further anarchy was...
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A Bahraini anti-government protester throws a stone toward riot police, unseen, as others run during clashes in Jidhafs, Bahrain, on Saturday, April 20, 2013.
Dubai. Bahraini police clashed on Sunday with Shiite demonstrators, only hours ahead of the Gulf state’s Formula One Grand Prix race, which the authorities insisted would go ahead without disruption. Nico Rosberg of Mercedes will start on pole after...
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Election officials begin counting the results after the polls closed at the country's provincial elections in Basra, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013.
Baghdad: Iraqi election officials were to begin counting votes on Sunday from the country's first elections since US troops departed, which served as a key test of its stability amid a spike in violence. Attacks killed three people on election day, a...
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Toyama Bay from a beach in Toyama Bay (富山湾, Toyama-wan?) is a bay located on the northern shores of Honshu, Japan. The bay borders Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures
TOKYO : A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Japan’s main Honshu...
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Paraguay's former President Fernando Lugo addresses the nation after the Senate voted to remove him from office in an impeachment trial at the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012.
Voters in Paraguay go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election seen as key to restoring the country's democratic credentials. Horacio Cartes, of the conservative Colorado Party, and the centre-right Liberal Party's Efrain Alegre...
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Relatives of one of more then 1,000 students killed by the May 12 earthquake at Beichuan Middle School grieve at the badly stricken town of Qushan in Beichuan County of Sichuan province Thursday June 5, 2008.
BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 1.5 million people in southwest China's Sichuan Province have been affected by Saturday's strong earthquake, said the Ministry of Civil Affairs here Sunday. The quake has affected 69 counties in the province,...
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, center, shares a word with Lower Chamber President Fausto Bertinotti, right, as Senate President Franco Marini pulls on his jacket, during a joint parliamentary session in the Lower Chamber of Deputies at a ceremony for the sixtieth anniversary of the country's constitution, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Italian Premier Romano Prodi was fighting an uphill battle for his government's survival Wednesday, facing the first of two confidence votes that will determine if his center-left coalition can endure despite the loss of a crucial ally in Parliament.
ROME : Italy’s lawmakers re-elected 87-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano on Saturday in a bid to break the country’s political gridlock, as protestors outside parliament jeered the result. The ex-communist Napolitano won with a sweeping majority...
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In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security agents carry a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
Seven million Syrians now need humanitarian assistance, according to an estimate from the United Nations. The Assad regime is being blamed by the UN for hindering the distribution of aid. In the capital, Damascus, people struggle to get on with their...
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