 | Diplomats: UN experts say NKorea violates sanctions
Security Council diplomats say an expert panel has reported that North Korea continues to violate U.N. sanctions, citing possible attempts to ship arms to Syria and Myanmar and illegally import luxury goods.
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 | French Afghanistan withdrawal plan firm
French President Francois Hollande says his country will withdraw all of its combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end.
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 | Bomb blasts at bird market in Baghdad kill five
Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said.
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 | Judge weighs multiple 9/11 trials at Gitmo
A military judge is considering whether to hold more than one trial for the five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the September 11th attacks.
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 | Journalist kidnapped in Mexico
Mexican authorities say masked gunmen have kidnapped a police-beat reporter in the northern state of Sonora.
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 | Brazil president to receive apologies for torture
Rio de Janeiro state will apologize to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff for the human rights abuses she suffered during the country's 1961-1985 dictatorship.
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 | Violence escalates in Yemen
Yemeni troops killed 11 al-Qaida fighters in the southern part of the country, as government forces battled their way into the outskirts of a key town under the militants' control.
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 | Concordia wreckage gone by early 2013
The head of a U.S.-owned marine salvage company chosen to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the waters off Tuscany is predicting the vessel will be ready for towing by early next year.
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 | Hundreds leave Venezuelan prison
About 300 inmates have filed out of a troubled penitentiary where a group of armed prisoners has held off authorities for three weeks.
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 | American jihadist writes memoir
An American who serves as a commander with a Somali militant group says in a new autobiography that he had a "privileged" childhood in Alabama before he joined the al-Qaida linked militants.
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