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| • Report: Colo. mom in on plot to kill Swede |
| Authorities in Ireland are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist, The Wall Street Journal reports. |
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| • Rickshaw bomber kills 10 in Pakistan |
| Officials say at least 10 people were killed at a security checkpoint by a suicide bomber in a rickshaw in the latest of a series of attacks. |
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| • Suspect held over $331,000 poker heist |
| A suspect has been arrested in connection with a daring $331,000 raid on a poker tournament, according to German media reports. |
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| • Anti-government protesters head for Bangkok |
 Thousands of red-shirted, anti-government demonstrators converge on the Thai capital, vowing to oust the government in a mass display of muscle.
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| • 8 youths die in attack on party in western Mexico |
| Gunmen burst into a party in western Mexico and killed eight youths and left another person wounded on Friday. |
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| • Kazakhstan flooding death toll rises to 30 |
| The death toll from a massive flood that devastated a village in southern Kazakhstan has risen to 30, officials said Saturday. |
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| • Report: NKorea to rejoin nuclear talks in April |
| North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday. |
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| • Roadside bomb kills 6 civilians in Afghanistan |
| A remote-controlled bomb killed six Afghan civilians Saturday as they traveled in a central province, an official said. |
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| • Pope under fire for transfer, letter on sex abuse |
| Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children. |
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| • Housing still elusive for Haiti quake victims |
 With torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelter they promised for tens of thousands of Haitians left homeless by January's earthquake.
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| • 43 dead, 100 hurt in Lahore blasts |
 Two suicide bombers kill at least 43 people and wound 100 in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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| • 2 dead in shooting at Canadian car dealership |
| Police say two men are dead and another is wounded after a gunman fired shots at a car dealership in Western Canada. |
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| • Israel seals off West Bank amid growing tension |
 Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Jerusalem's Old City and Arab neighborhoods during Muslim weekly prayers on Friday.
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| • Iraq PM uses early lead to pursue new govt allies |
| Seizing on an early lead in Iraq's election, the prime minister's political coalition began reaching out to rivals Friday as partial results signaled a tight race that was unlikely to produce a clear-cut winner. |
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| • Organizers ax 200-year-old cheese chase |
| A 200-year-old English race in which competitors chase round cheeses rolling down a hillside has been canceled this year because of overcrowding concerns. |
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| • Aussie cabbie to take tourists 4,000 miles |
| A Western Australian taxi driver named the state's favorite cabbie in an online contest has won the right to take 22 passengers on a 4,000-mile (6,500-kilometer) ride. |
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