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Twenty are hurt as security forces drag out 250 settlers from a disputed house in the West Bank city. Full story
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Life in sealed Gaza
Slide show: Israel has effectively blocked the border with the Gaza Strip.
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Mexican cartels send messages of chaos, death
Death squads use grotesque methods to influence public opinion. Full story | Video: Praying for peace
Zimbabwe: Hospitals 'not functioning'
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Zimbabwe declares health emergency
Zimbabwe has declared a national emergency over its cholera epidemic and the collapse of its health system due to the country's economic crisis.
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Mexican cartels send messages of death
The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society.
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'Ill' Thai king fails to make speech
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has a throat infection and is on a drip, the crown princess said after he failed to make his traditional birthday eve address amid a crippling political crisis.
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Dutch drop murder case over late abortion
Prosecutors said Thursday they have dropped their murder investigation and will not press charges against a Dutch woman who had a late-term abortion in Spain.
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Judge affirms 'millennium bomber' sentence
A federal judge in Seattle on Wednesday re-imposed a 22-year sentence on an Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb the Los Angeles airport at the turn of the millennium.
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Jewish settlers clash with Israeli troops
Israeli security forces stormed a disputed house in Hebron on Thursday, dragging out some 250 settlers who barricaded themselves inside and hurled rocks, eggs and chemicals at their evictors.
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Indian airports on high alert after warning
Airports in India went on high alert following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks.
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Final OK for Iraq-U.S. security pact
Iraq's three-member presidential council on Thursday approved a security pact with the United States setting out a three-year timeframe for the full withdrawal of U.S. troops, a spokesman said.
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