Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi staged protests in Cairo on Tuesday against an Islamist-backed draft constitution that has divided Egypt but looks set to be approved in the second half of a referendum this

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The United States set sanctions Tuesday on two top officials of the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, saying they both made use of child soldiers and singled out children as targets.

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Only about one in three internet users in France went online to catch the news or read their favourite newspapers in the last three months, the lowest in any EU nation, European Union data showed

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A coal mine collapsed in central Iran on Tuesday, leaving four miners dead and another four missing, Iranian media reported, quoting officials. The probable cause was an "explosion of accumulated dangerous gas" in the mine

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US television journalist Richard Engel, kidnapped in Syria and held for five days, was freed after a firefight between his pro-regime captors and Syrian rebels, he said Tuesday. Engel, 39, is one of the highest-profile

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Questions about religion will be introduced in two Turkish university entrance exams next year, a first in the mainly Muslim but staunchly secular country, an official said Tuesday. Students will be asked to answer five

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Tens of thousands of refugees living in urban areas in Kenya must return to remote and overcrowded camps, the government said Tuesday, demanding all aid be cut off outside the camps. "All asylum seekers and

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Rebels in the Central African Republic seized a key diamond-mining town on Tuesday and began looting its shops, a top military source said, a day after the insurgents threatened to overthrow the government. The rebels,

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A deal to avert a "fiscal cliff" of US tax hikes and spending cuts looked closer on Tuesday after House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner kept the support of his Republican colleagues for compromises in

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Malaysia's maritime agency on Tuesday said it "rescued" 40 Myanmar shipwreck survivors, who are thought to be Muslim Rohingya fleeing ethnic violence who had been denied entry to Singapore. The agency told AFP the survivors

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