Air France expects to cancel nearly half its long haul flights Tuesday as a strike by aviation workers enters its second day.

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French strike expected to ground many overseas flights

Bob Bradley, an American who coaches Egypt's national soccer team, says Egypt's love for soccer is intertwined with its political revolution.

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Egypt’s American soccer coach

The Italian captain of the shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia must remain under house arrest while investigators look into possible charges against him, a court in Florence, Italy, ruled Tuesday, a defense lawyer said.

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Cruise ship captain must remain under house arrest

Greek union members are expected to go on a daylong strike Tuesday to protest new austerity measures sought by foreign lenders as the country negotiates to keep its finances afloat.

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Greek unions set to strike over new austerity demands

President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned Tuesday after members of the nation's police force revolted against his government.

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Police revolt topples Maldives president

Australian authorities on Tuesday told more than 2,000 residents who had left a town at the mercy of record-breaking flood waters to stay away until the danger had passed.

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Australian town under water

Eastern Europe remained in the grip of brutal cold and deep snows Tuesday, with authorities in Ukraine, the hardest-hit country, scrambling to help thousands of people whose lives are at risk due to the weather.

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A Norwegian court concluded Monday that Anders Behring Breivik — the man charged with killing 77 people last July, an attack he claimed merited a medal of honor — can legally be kept in custody until his trial starts in April, according to court documents.

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Norway shooting suspect: I deserve a medal

U.S. aid to Egypt could suffer if Egypt persists in prosecuting nongovernmental organization workers, U.S. officials warned Monday

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U.S. working ‘at every level’ to resolve NGO dispute with Egypt

Mexico's conservative ruling party has picked a former education secretary as its nominee for the nation's top job. If she wins, she will become Mexico's first female president.

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Mexico’s ruling party picks woman as presidential candidate

Intense blasts echoed through the ravaged Syrian city of Homs on Monday after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths there, local activists said.

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Activist: Rockets rip through Syrian city

Violent clashes near Egypt's Interior Ministry on Monday left at least one person dead and 72 injured, a health ministry official said.

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One dead, dozens injured in fifth day of Egypt clashes

Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters to vacate their homes.

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Australians urged to flee flooding

Sixty years ago Monday, a 25-year-old woman got a message that her father had died — and that she was now Queen Elizabeth II.

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Elizabeth celebrates 60 years as queen

A closed-door hearing to determine whether the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship should remain under house arrest is set for Monday.

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Hearing set for Italian cruise ship captain

Amitai Etzioni says that no one can assume that we can rely on Iranian leaders to make rational decisions.

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Can a nuclear Iran be deterred?

We meet her by chance on the side of a road. She looks the very model of a Chinese factory worker: young, vibrant, dressed in the cheap brand-name knockoff fashions so common of poor rural villages.

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Foxconn story shrouded in secrecy

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Monday off the third-largest island in the Philippines, killing at least 12 people, an official said.

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Aftershocks rattle Philippines; quake death toll climbs

Tuareg tribesman who reportedly fought for Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have returned to Mali with weapons, stoking violence and forcing thousands to flee, Mali's president said.

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President: Tuareg fighters from Libya stoke violence in Mali

The death toll from fighting between Syrian government forces and civilians is rising, a day after the U.N. Security Council failed to approve a plan seeking to halt the violence.

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Syrian violence grows after U.N. veto

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial “within weeks or months,” Libya's interior minister said Sunday.

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Libya’s Saif Gadhafi could be tried within weeks, official says

Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week.

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Protesters clash with police in Cairo as anger mounts

U.S. Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died in Kabul of apparent natural causes, officials said, making him one of the highest ranking officers to die in Afghanistan.

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U.S. brigadier general dies in Afghanistan

Heathrow Airport, one of the world's busiest international airports, canceled about three out of 10 flights Sunday as several inches of snow fell on London overnight.

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Heathrow cancels flights as snow blankets London

Finland heads to the polls Sunday to elect a new leader, with a former finance minister running against the nation's first openly gay presidential candidate, according to the country's media.

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