Christian groups in the Philippines plan to protest Lady Gaga’s performances there Monday and Tuesday, just after Muslim protests have cast doubt whether she will be allowed to perform in Indonesia.

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Lady Gaga’s Manila concerts face protests

Two additional suspects face charges in connection with an alleged terror plot in Chicago as world leaders meet at a NATO summit there today.

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New charges in foiled plot as NATO meets

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, died Sunday, the Libyan government and a family member said. He was 60.

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Lockerbie bomber dies more than two years after release

A strong earthquake struck northern Italy early Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead, authorities said.

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The Pakistani government has blocked the social networking site Twitter because of material it deemed an affront to Islam, a government official told CNN on Sunday.

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Pakistan blocks Twitter over material deemed blasphemous

Concerns about whether debt-laden Greece will be forced to pull out of the eurozone, and what that would mean for a weakened European economy is the first topic on Saturday’s agenda at the Group of Eight summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, a senior administration official said.

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Fierce clashes between government troops and al Qaeda fighters Sunday morning in Yemen left 21 people dead, two local security officials told CNN.

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21 dead in Yemen al Qaeda clashes

Two suspects in a fatal bombing outside a school in Italy have been identified, a prosecutor said.

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Italy school attack not tied to mafia, prosecutor says

Iran’s finance minister believes oil prices could rise as high as $160 a barrel thanks to sanctions over its nuclear program, a prediction that comes just as the chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency headed to Tehran on Sunday for high-level talks.

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Iranian official: Expect record oil prices over nuclear sanctions

Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng arrived Saturday evening in the United States, bringing an end to a diplomatic firestorm that erupted after he escaped from house arrest and took to YouTube to complain about abuse he said his family suffered at the hands of authorities.

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Chinese human rights activist Chen arrives in U.S.

Jenna Talackova, the 23-year-old woman who forced Donald Trump and his Miss Universe Canada pageant to end its ban on transgender contestants, fell short of the national title Saturday night at the pageant in Toronto.

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What would be Greece’s new currency if it leave the euro? CNN’s Jim Boulden explores the possibility.

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What will Greeks use if euro is ditched?

An oil painting of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the buff was unveiled at a public library in Ontario.

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Canada’s PM … in his birthday suit

President Barack Obama and other world leaders are set to address a host of vexing economic and military security issues this weekend.

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Obama to G8: Welcome … to troubles

Three shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams and seaweed for 10 days while stranded on an island off Canada’s Pacific Coast until a passing sailboat rescued them, the Royal Canadian Navy said Friday.

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Shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams, seaweed for 10 days

CNN’s Becky Anderson drives down memory lane with participants in the Italian classic car race, Mille Miglia.

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Classic cars, classic Italian race

The body of a crime reporter who had been abducted Thursday in northwest Sonora State was found Friday inside a plastic bag south of Sonora, Notimex reported.

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At 13 years old, Nickolaus Dent is his mother’s primary caregiver.

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13 years old and taking care of mom

Six roasted fetuses covered with gold for black magic rituals were found in a Bangkok hotel room, and the gruesome discovery led to the arrest of a British citizen Friday, Thai police said.

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Fetuses found stashed in luggage

Salvage experts outlined their plan Friday to raise the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from the sea floor off Italy in one piece and tow it from the disaster site.

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Wrecked Costa Concordia to be raised from sea floor

Rights groups have slammed a lunch being hosted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II on Friday for including monarchs criticized over their countries’ human rights records.

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Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said.

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Al-Qaeda’s leader is calling for the Yemeni people to rise up against the country’s new president, portraying him as the stooge of the unpopular former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the United States.

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A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Lai Changxing, a tycoon who spent more than a decade as a fugitive in Canada, to life in prison for smuggling and bribery, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

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Tycoon gets life for smuggling

We’re at a soup kitchen in a shabby back street in Paris, next to the canal Saint Martin, near the Jaurès metro stop. Hundreds of homeless people are queuing up for some hot food and a coffee. Most of them are from Asia; many from Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

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Afghan street kids in Paris