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South Sudan says 80,000 flee after north takes Abyei
May 27, 2011 12:46 
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TURALEI, Sudan (Reuters) - Alel Bol fled with four of her six children when armed northerners on motorbikes roared into her home in Sudan's contested Abyei border region and, she said, bombs started falling from the sky.
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Six U.N. peacekeepers wounded in Lebanon bomb blast
May 27, 2011 07:44
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb blew up a U.N. jeep near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Friday, wounding six Italian U.N. peacekeepers, the Italian military chief of staff said, in the first attack of its kind in three years.
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Serb court says Mladic fit for genocide trial
May 27, 2011 07:40
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Ratko Mladic is fit enough to face genocide charges in The Hague, a Belgrade court ruled on Friday after the Bosnian Serb wartime general's son said he appeared too frail after more than 15 years on the run.
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Eight killed in Syria protests, world pressure grows
May 27, 2011 05:56
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces shot dead eight people on Friday, rights campaigners said, as protesters defied a nationwide crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad.
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Yemen on brink of civil war as clashes spread
May 27, 2011 05:17
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SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni tribesmen said they wrested a military compound from elite troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the capital Sanaa on Friday as fighting spread, threatening to tip the country into civil war.
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Obama says U.S. will see through Libya mission
May 27, 2011 03:49
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DEAUVILLE, France (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday that the United States and France were in full agreement on sticking with the NATO-led intervention in Libya until the crisis there is resolved.
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Japan moves to protect children as new nuclear leak revealed
May 27, 2011 03:26
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(Reuters) - Japan will pay schools near the quake-ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant to remove radioactive top soil and set a lower radiation exposure limit for schoolchildren after a growing outcry over health risks.
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North Korea says it releases detained U.S. citizen
May 27, 2011 03:22
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SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. rights envoy Robert King on Friday won the release of an American citizen detained in North Korea on unspecified charges for the past six months, as he wrapped up a visit to the secretive state to assess its pleas for food...
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Serbia may ask IMF for 1 bln euros: IMF official
May 27, 2011 03:19
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - The Serbian government may ask the International Monetary Fund for about 1 billion euros ($1.42 billion) as part of its future precautionary deal with the lender, an IMF official said on Friday.
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Yemen on brink of civil war as protesters gather
May 27, 2011 03:08
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SANAA (Reuters) - Supporters and opponents of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were expected to hold large rival demonstrations on Friday after a week of clashes in the capital threatened to tip the country into civil war.
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