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  • Bomb explodes near UN observers' chief in Syria
    A roadside bomb has exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as the chief of the U.N. observers was visiting.No casualties were reported from Sunday's blast in Douma, which damaged a parked ...

  • Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US
    A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the United State on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China ...

  • Protesters prepare for larger NATO demonstration
    Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center ...

  • China's premier calls for efforts to spur growth
    Premier Wen Jiabao called for more priority to be given to boosting China's slowing economic growth, a state news agency reported Sunday, after unusually weak industrial activity in April prompted ...

  • Italy bombing revives memories of dark era
    A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has revived dark memories of the 70s and 80s, when terrorists, anarchists and organized crime carried out dozens ...

  • Sukhoi victims? identification concluded: Police
    Mission accomplished: Visitors traverse a walkway near the Sukanto Police Hospital?s forensic department in Jakarta on Sunday. The National Police?s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) unit has ...

  • Chelsea, luckiest team in football
    Lots of money, lots of luck, and players who didn't care about winning ugly, just so long as they won, turned Chelsea into the champions of Europe.The money, of course, is Roman Abramovich's. The ...

  • Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious material
    The chairman of Pakistan's telecommunications authority says the government has blocked the social networking website Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam.Mohammad Yaseen says ...

  • Di Matteo silent on his future with Chelsea
    After leading Chelsea to the biggest trophy in club football, Roberto di Matteo's future as manager of the London club is still in doubt.Di Matteo had a conversation with Chelsea owner Roman ...

  • Portugal President to visit RI on Tuesday
    The President of Portugal, Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva, is scheduled to visit Indonesia from Tuesday to Thursday.?This is going to be the first visit of a leader of Portugal since the establishment ...