AFP – Three Islamists sentenced to death for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people were executed by firing squad early Sunday, sparking clashes between police and their emotional supporters.
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AFP – New Zealand are set to return to something closer to a first-choice line-up for next weekend’s clash with Ireland in Dublin after imperiously sweeping Scotland aside in the opening leg of their Grand Slam tour of the British Isles.
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AP – Rescuers pulled four children alive Saturday from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 84 people.
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AFP – Hundreds of emotional supporters of the Bali bombers clashed with police Sunday as the bodies of two of the men arrived in their home village following their execution overnight.
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AP – An accident aboard a nuclear-powered Russian navy submarine doing a test run in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday killed more than 20 people, the navy said.
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AP – Iraq’s presidential council Saturday signed off on legislation giving Christians and other religious minorities fewer guaranteed seats on provincial councils than the U.N. and some political groups had recommended.
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AP – An accident aboard a nuclear-powered Russian navy submarine doing a test run in the Pacific Ocean killed more than 20 people Sunday, the navy said.
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AFP – Zimbabwe’s ruling party and opposition leaders looked set to dig their heels in on power-sharing demands ahead of a crunch summit of southern African leaders in South Africa Sunday.
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Reuters – Four months after Serbia swore in a pro-Europe government in a move away from its nationalist past, the Serbian Orthodox Church is deciding whether to stick to its hardline course or become more moderate.
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AP – Powerful Hurricane Paloma slammed into southern Cuba on Saturday as authorities scrambled to move hundreds of thousands of people to safer ground and protect crops on an island still reeling from two other storms.
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