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Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger
2 hours 6 mins ago
The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
2 hours 16 mins ago
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
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Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
2 hours 16 mins ago
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
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Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence
2 hours 38 mins ago
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
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Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA
4 hours 15 mins ago
Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago _ even when they don't want to know their birth parents.
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Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
4 hours 22 mins ago
Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
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Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them
5 hours 29 mins ago
A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand is not paid.
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McCain urges Obama to speed up Afghan decision
5 hours 30 mins ago
U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.
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