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Democrats want Romney to explain offshore accounts
By News on Jul 8, 2012
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is raising millions of dollars from New York's elite Sunday, as Democrats push for him to explain offshore bank accounts and release several years of tax returns....
Libyan election hints at blow to Islamists
By News on Jul 8, 2012
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libya's first nationwide elections in nearly five decades brought hints Sunday of an Arab Spring precedent: Western-leaning parties making strides over Islamist rivals hoping to follow the same paths to power as in neighbors Egypt and Tunisia....Syrian military holds exercises in show of force
By News on Jul 8, 2012
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- In a show of force, Syria began large-scale military exercises Sunday to simulate defending the country against outside "aggression." Damascus' staunch ally Iran warned of a "catastrophe" in the region if no political solution to the 16-month-old Syrian conflict is found....NATO: 6 service members killed in Afghanistan
By News on Jul 8, 2012
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO says an explosion has killed six service members in eastern Afghanistan....Egypt's generals meet on recall of parliament
By News on Jul 8, 2012
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CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's official news agency says the country's top generals are holding an "emergency meeting" to discuss the surprise decision by the president to recall the dissolved, Islamist-dominated parliament....