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Istanbul mosques mark Ramadan with celestial script

Yildiz is one of the few remaining masters of Mahya, a tradition unique to Turkey and for which Istanbul’s Ottoman-era imperial mosques with their …
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Factbox: BlackBerry under fire from states seeking access

RIM’s encrypted traffic is delivered through its network operating centres, based mostly in Canada, though corporate clients can choose to host …
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Paris: From tyranny of taxis to ‘City of Bikes’

Hundreds of kilometres (miles) of new bike lanes are being rolled out on the streets of the City of Light, cyclists are winning new road rights and …
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Thousands to attend mass at monastery in Turkey

Turkish authorities have reopened the Byzantine-era stone monastery of Sumela near the Black Sea — built nearly 1,000 feet into the side of a mountain …
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Venezuelan ex-general accused of revealing secrets

Retired Brig. Gen. Antonio Rivero was once the government’s emergency management director, but he grew concerned about what he saw as growing Cuban …
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The New Yorker: Soak the very rich

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Debt woes sap Europe’s big-dream investments

Deep in debt after decades of borrowing too much and still running big deficits from the recession, European countries are scaling back some of …
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Asian shares slide on signs of slowing growth

The third day of losses in Asia came after steep falls on Wall Street that were triggered by troubling economic news. The U.S. trade deficit widened …
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Pakistan floods could give Taliban time to regroup

One of the hardest hit regions is the northwest, the heartland of the Pakistan Taliban and other insurgent groups. Over the last two years, the army …
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The New York Times: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria moving from South Asia to U.S.

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China eyes local carbon trade

With power capacity set to double again in the next decade to 1,600 gigawatts, far more than the United States, billions of dollars of investment …
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U.S. braces for Kandahar fight

The campaign to secure the Taliban’s birthplace of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan is a central objective of President Barack Obama’s revised war …
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‘Granddad Bandit’ captured in Louisiana

Police and FBI agents surrounded the home Wednesday morning and nearly six hours later walked out with a stocky, balding man with graying hair and …
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Solar taxi driver plans global zero emissions race

Louis Palmer says the teams from Australia, Germany, South Korea and Switzerland will fire up their electric vehicles Aug. 16 in Geneva in an effort …
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Flotilla of stinging jellyfish hit Spanish beaches (PHOTO)

The blobs attacked three areas near the eastern city of Elche along a famed stretch of white sand beaches known as the Costa Blanca. On Tuesday …
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Scientists use salmonella bug to kill cancer cells

Researchers from Italy and the United States who worked with mouse and human cancer cells in laboratories said their work might help in developing a …
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German experts fuel debate about retirement at 70

That’s the prescription of two think tanks, which say years more toil are inevitable due to stubbornly low birthrates and the ballooning costs of …
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Hungary opposition parties condemn new media rules

The regulations, recently signed into law by Hungary’s new president, Pal Schmitt, opened the way for Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday to …
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