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JFK diary reveals love affair for Germany, author finds
John F. Kennedy in his younger years thought fascism was good for Germany and that the world hated Nazis more out of jealousy, a new book recounts. The book, "John F. Kennedy , Among the Germans," is based on his personal notations and musings in travel diaries and letters dated from 1937 through 1945, the Daily Mail reported.
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Muslim cleric: 'God destined' for Brit soldier Lee Rigby to die in terror attack
Radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, whose fiery rhetoric has left him banned from Britain, referred to the street terrorists who hacked a soldier to death in London as "heroes" who carried out God's will.
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Stockholm on fire as youths burn cars, schools
Stockholm is in chaos, as hundreds of youths on Friday set fire to nearly a dozen cars, two schools and a police station as violent protests in Sweden's capital city enter their fifth day. Between 300 and 500 in the crowd of protesters circled around the blazing cars, United Press International reported, as nearby youths started to vandalize other vehicles.
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Ukranian court bans gays from holding pride parade
A Ukrainian court rejected a request from gay rights activists to hold their nation's first pride parade through the streets of Kiev, citing concerns about violence. The planned "Equality March," the first of its kind for Kiev, was aimed at raising awareness of what activists characterize as rampant discrimination against the gay community, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Britain scrambles fighter jets against civilian plane from Pakistan
British authorities on Friday sent fighter jets to escort a plane from Pakistan that's carrying nearly 300 passengers. The Defense Ministry said the Pakistani International Airlines plane was from Lahore and was being diverted from Manchester, Reuters reported. Fox News said the plane was carrying 297 passengers.
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Five climbers missing, feared dead at Nepal's Mount Kanchenjunga
Five climbers on Nepal's Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, went missing earlier in the week and are now believed to be dead, a mountaineering chief said on Friday. Two of the climbers were from Hungary, one from South Korea, and the other two, guides from Nepal, The Associated Press reported. They went missing on Monday during their descent.
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Egyptian 'honor killings' leave mother, 2 daughters dead
A spokesman for Egypt's security force said 10 men killed a mother and her two daughters for suspected lapses in morality. The "honor killings" were conducted by the victims' relatives, The Associated Press reported. The three were suspected of having affairs, AP reported.
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Explosion, gunfire near hospital rocks Kabul in second recent attack
KABUL, Afghanistan , A loud explosion, followed up by heavy gunfire, was heard in the capital city of Kabul near government buildings on Friday afternoon around 4 p.m local time. An Associated Press cameraman who witnessed the explosion said the blast occurred near a hospital for Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Security Directorate.
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Pope Francis suggests atheists' good deeds gets them to heaven
Pope Francis has sparked a religious debate with comments made earlier this week confirming atheists can indeed go to heaven. Christian teaching generally holds that belief in Jesus, and not good deeds, grants eternal life.
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Russia rocked by magnitude 8 earthquake
Russia's Far East region was rocked on Friday by a powerful earthquake that geologists put between 8.0 and 8.2 on the Richter scale. The quake was even felt in Moscow , 4,400 miles from its epicenter, in the Sea of Okhotsk, The Associated Press reported. Emergency officials initially issued a tsunami warning for the Kuril islands and for Sakhalin, but lifted it a short time later, AP said.
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Russia: Syria's agreed to peace conference 'in principle'
Russian ministers said Friday that Syria has agreed to join a Russia-U.S. peace conference and talk about the besieged government's future , but the agreement was laced with conditions. Specifically, Syria's "agreed in principle" to the conference, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevic said, in The Associated Press.
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British P.M. David Cameron demands that MI5 explain 'what went wrong' in Woolwich attack
British Prime Minister David Cameron is demanding intelligence and security heads explain how two Islamist terror suspects could massacre a soldier in the streets when the two had been surveillance targets of MI5 for the past eight years.
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Parts of London airport closed as engine fire forces emergency landing
Parts of Heathrow Airport in London were closed on Friday as a plane was forced to make an emergency landing with its engine on fire. All 75 passengers were safely evacuated via slides, NBC reported. But delays are expected , at one of the world's busiest ports of international travel.
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Inside China: Taiwan, China vie for toughness
The May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard set off an inadvertent naval competition between Taiwan and China. The incident occurred in the disputed Bashi Strait between Taiwan and the Philippines, and Taiwan and China each sent a large number of vessels to waters near the Philippines to demonstrate armed hostility.
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Embassy Row: Pressure on Iran
The House and Senate this week advanced bills to broaden sanctions against Iran because of its suspected nuclear weapons program and continued abuse of human rights, as the theocratic regime in Tehran took steps to manipulate its June 14 presidential election.
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Arrests of 2 in British soldier's slaughter signal wider Islamist terror plot
LONDON , British police late Thursday arrested a man and a woman in connection with the butchering of a British soldier on a London street, as anti-Muslim protests sprang up across the country. The arrests...
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Q and A: What is known about London attack
A look at the key known facts about attack in south London in which two men killed a British soldier near military barracks Wednesday. Q: What happened? A: Two men with butcher knives, a machete and a meat cleaver attacked and killed a soldier near military barracks in the south London neighborhood of Woolwich. Two U.K.
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Obama: Al Qaeda is on 'a path to defeat'
President Obama said Thursday that al Qaeda is nearly defeated and the war on terrorism has changed since he took office, and that demands a broad rethink that includes scaling down drone attacks, transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay and revisiting the 2001 congressional resolution that set the country on perpetual war footing.
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Commander of drug cartel guilty of shooting ICE agents in Mexico
Julian Zapata Espinoza, a cell commander of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in the District in the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of his partner, ICE Agent Victor Avila, during a February 2011 daylight ambush on a major highway 250 miles north of Mexico City.
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Next month's peace conference has Syrian rebels at a crossroads
The main Syrian opposition coalition meets in Istanbul Thursday for three days of talks, including a key decision whether or not to attend a Russia- and U.S.-backed peace conference with the Syrian government in Geneva next month.
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Lee Rigby, 25, identified as British soldier killed in London machete attack
Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was identified Friday by the Ministry of Defence as the victim in the horrific machete attack in the Woolwich neighborhood of London. Mr. Rigby, 25, joined the British army in 2006 and was stationed in London on a recruiting stint, the British military said in a release.
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5 dead in Lebanon clash of Assad foes, backers
BEIRUT (AP) , Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there in years, officials said Thursday.
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Pakistan had arrested American who was killed by drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) , An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.
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Author Dan Brown hounded for calling Manila 'gates of hell'
MANILA, Philippines (AP) , Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital. The book "Inferno," which is being sold in the Philippines, includes a character who is visiting the city and taken aback by poverty, crime and the sex trade.
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IMF head Christine Lagarde in Paris court in fraud probe
PARIS (AP) , International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is facing questions at a special Paris court Thursday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) payoff to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister.
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U.S., Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart
JERUSALEM (AP) , The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry's 2-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
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Lethal lapse: London machete attackers were probed by U.K.'s MI5 anti-terror investigators
A British government official says both suspects in the brutal killing of a solider were part of previous security services investigations for possible terror links. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the investigation, said he could not provide other details because the suspects may face trial.
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A mother's courage: Brave woman confronts London machete attacker; halts more bloodshed
LONDON (AP) , A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London. Ingrid Loyau-Kennett got off a bus and tried to reason with the two attackers after she tried to help the man lying on the street but found he had no pulse and was already dead.
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Japanese climber, 80, becomes oldest atop Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) , An 80-year-old Japanese man who has had four heart operations in recent years became the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest on Thursday , although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.
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Markets roiled by Nikkei's 7.3 percent slide
LONDON (AP) , Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago. Several...
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