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Bishops press for broader birth control exemption
Bishops press for broader birth control exemption
American bishops said Thursday the Obama administration's latest compromise on birth control coverage and religious employers doesn't go far enough to answer church concerns. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said a bigger buffer is needed between religious charities and any third party arrang

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Brennan doesn't know if waterboarding got results
Brennan doesn't know if waterboarding got results
CIA nominee John Brennan says he doesn't know whether harsh interrogation methods have produced valuable information — because of what he's read in a still-classified report on the issue. Speaking at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Brennan said that

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China's new leader urges 'sharp' party criticism
China's new leader urges 'sharp' party criticism
China's new leader said the ruling Communist Party should tolerate "sharp" outside criticism, in comments that are being viewed skeptically by a public accustomed to pervasive censorship. State media said newly installed party General Secretary Xi Jinping made the remarks Wednesday at a gathering o

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US warns of 'consequences' in Kenya election
US warns of 'consequences' in Kenya election
Warning repeatedly of "consequences," the top U.S. diplomat for Africa on Thursday appeared to caution Kenyan voters against electing a president who faces charges for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. U.S. diplomat Johnnie Carson never named the candidate in question, bu

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Mali: French troops begin withdrawal from Timbuktu
Mali: French troops begin withdrawal from Timbuktu
French troops began to withdraw from Timbuktu Thursday after securing the fabled city as they ramped up their mission in another northern Mali city, searching for Islamic extremists who may be mixing among the local population. French military spokesman Col. Thierry Burkhard said Thursday that the

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Group urges Lebanon to protect Syrian refugees
Group urges Lebanon to protect Syrian refugees
An international rights group says Lebanon has failed to enact political reforms to curb human rights abuses, promote women's rights, and protect migrants and refuges as the country grapples with spillover effects from neighboring Syria's civil war. Human Rights Watch hailed the Lebanese government

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Iran's Ahmadenijad entices Egypt into alliance
Iran's Ahmadenijad entices Egypt into alliance
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried Thursday to entice Egypt into a new alliance that could reshape the turbulent Middle East, speaking of forging "comprehensive" and "unfettered" relations after decades of distrust. A warming of ties between the two regional heavyweights could have uncomfo

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Palestinian officials: Obama must pressure Israel
Palestinian officials: Obama must pressure Israel
The Palestinians on Thursday responded coolly to a White House announcement that President Barack Obama will not bring any bold new peace initiatives to the region next month, saying there is no hope for reviving serious negotiations unless the U.S. leader is personally involved. The Palestinians'

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French try to root out would-be jihadists at home
French try to root out would-be jihadists at home
France, waging war against Islamist extremists in Mali, is on the hunt for would-be fighters at home, fearful that they will join militants in the conflict in its former African colony or take radical action on French soil. With Iraq and Afghanistan no longer magnets for foreign fighters, officials

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UN: Cost of bribes paid by Afghans spiked in 2012
UN: Cost of bribes paid by Afghans spiked in 2012
The cost of corruption in Afghanistan rose sharply last year to $3.9 billion, and half of all Afghans bribed public officials for services, the U.N. said Thursday. The findings came despite repeated promises by President Hamid Karzai to clean up his government. The international community has long

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India faulted for failing to curb child sex abuse
India faulted for failing to curb child sex abuse
India's government has failed to curb rampant sexual abuse of children, especially in schools and state-run child care facilities, a rights group said Thursday. The report from Human Rights Watch comes in the wake of the fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus in December, an attack tha

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Egypt opposition leader warns over death edict
Egypt opposition leader warns over death edict
Egypt's most prominent opposition leader criticized the Islamist government on Wednesday for its silence over a Muslim cleric's edict calling for the death of opposition supporters. Mohamed ElBaradei was responding to well-known ultraconservative cleric Mahmoud Shaaban, who said in a TV show last w

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Tunisia to shake-up government after assassination
Tunisia to shake-up government after assassination
Shaken by the assassination of a prominent leftist opposition leader that unleashed major protests, Tunisia's prime minister announced Wednesday that he would form a new government of technocrats to guide the country to elections "as soon as possible." The decision by Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali w

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Heavy clashes frighten residents in Syria capital
Heavy clashes frighten residents in Syria capital
Syrian rebels and regime forces fought their most intense clashes in weeks inside the heavily guarded capital of Damascus on Wednesday, activists said, with the sounds of shell blasts echoing through the downtown area and keeping many children home from school while residents hid in their houses. T

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Brennan's CIA bid chance to strike back at critics
Brennan's CIA bid chance to strike back at critics
A Senate hearing on John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA could lay bare some parts of the secret war against al-Qaida: lethal drone strikes from covert bases against even American terror suspects, harsh interrogation methods and long detention of suspects without due process. Some of the pract

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Obama meets with Senate Democrats, talks strategy
Obama meets with Senate Democrats, talks strategy
With a big to-do list at the start of his second term, President Barack Obama is trying to sell Democrats on his strategy for tackling immigration, gun control and a host of fiscal dilemmas. Obama met behind closed doors for more than two hours Wednesday with lawmakers from his own party at the Sen

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US productivity fell at 2 percent rate
US productivity fell at 2 percent rate
U.S. worker productivity shrank in the final three months of 2012 although the decline was caused by temporary factors. Productivity contracted at an annual rate of 2 percent in the October-December quarter, the biggest drop since the first quarter of 2011, the Labor Department reported Thursday. P

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Migrant workers at Sochi Olympic sites face abuses
Migrant workers at Sochi Olympic sites face abuses
One year ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the roads in the Black Sea resort and its surrounding mountains are lined with migrants from Central Asia doing the grunt work that Russians find too low-paid and physically demanding. Tens of thousands of migrant workers from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan a

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Chris Brown returns to court for probation issues
Chris Brown returns to court for probation issues
With the woman he assaulted throwing him a kiss, Chris Brown walked into court Wednesday to face allegations he failed to complete his community labor sentence for Rihanna's 2009 beating. A judge asked for more information and scheduled another hearing in two months. Rihanna, the glamorous singer w

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