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New details revealed on royal baby birth plans

1 hour 54 min ago
Prince William's wife, Catherine, plans to give birth to their first baby in the same hospital wing where her husband was born to Diana, Princess of Wales, almost 31 years ago, sources familiar with the plans said Wednesday.
Categories: International News

Witnessing sniper's 'kill shot' in Syria

2 hours 2 min ago
CNN EXCLUSIVE: Snipers are doing most of the fighting in one war-torn Damascus suburb in Syria -- and as CNN's Fred Pleitgen finds out first-hand, death can come any minute.
Categories: International News

Sidewalks exploding in London

2 hours 3 min ago
There's a new menace lurking in the streets of London -- exploding sidewalks.
Categories: International News

'Standing Man' inspires Turks

2 hours 11 min ago
CNN's Karl Penhaul reports on the "Standing Man," who has inspired a new form of protest in Turkey.
Categories: International News

Putin: I did not steal Super Bowl ring

2 hours 15 min ago
Russia's president is fighting back: No, he did not steal a Super Bowl ring. And no, he's not rocking the diamond-encrusted prize on his finger, either.
Categories: International News

Montreal's interim mayor arrested

2 hours 15 min ago
Montreal's interim mayor, Michael Applebaum, was arrested and charged early Monday with 14 criminal counts including fraud, breach of trust and conspiracy.
Categories: International News

Obama calls for reducing nuclear stockpiles

2 hours 17 min ago
President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate, where he said he would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear warheads.
Categories: International News

Italian court: Evidence neglected in Knox case

2 hours 18 min ago
Italy's supreme court on Tuesday explained its earlier ruling that American Amanda Knox be retried in the 2007 death of her roommate, saying the jury that acquitted her didn't consider all the evidence, and that discrepancies in testimony need to be answered.
Categories: International News

Turkish demonstrators plan next moves

2 hours 19 min ago
Still smarting from their ouster Saturday from Istanbul's Taksim Square, demonstrators planned to meet at 9 p.m. Wednesday in 11 neighborhoods to discuss how to proceed.
Categories: International News

Afghan government pulls out of talks

3 hours 11 min ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out Wednesday at the United States over the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar, pulling out of security talks with U.S. officials and refusing to take part in peace talks with the Taliban that he said would only benefit "foreigners' strategies and goals."
Categories: International News

Why Brazilians are fed up

3 hours 50 min ago
At 11 pm, the tired and the injured gathered in Belo Horizonte for one last expression of discontent.
Categories: International News

Netizens decry dolphin's treatment

4 hours 33 min ago
A dolphin who died in the southern Chinese city of Sanya Monday has sparked nationwide anger after pictures surfaced of tourists near the shore mistreating and posing with the dying animal were spread on Weibo, China's most popular social network site.
Categories: International News

Man charged with Nazi war crimes

4 hours 35 min ago
Prosecutors in Hungary indicted a Nazi war crimes suspect Tuesday with involvement in the brutal treatment and deportation of thousands of Jews during World War II.
Categories: International News

Indonesia fuel prices up 44%

4 hours 36 min ago
After clashes between police and protesters, Indonesia's parliament Monday night voted to revise the national budget and allow an increase of up to 44% in the prices of subsidized gas and diesel fuel.
Categories: International News

Fires shroud Singapore in haze

4 hours 38 min ago
Singapore was shrouded in haze on Wednesday as smoke from forest fires in nearby Sumatra drifted across the Malacca Strait in the city's worst pollution crisis in more than a decade.
Categories: International News

At least 14 killed in attack on U.N. headquarters in Somalia

4 hours 40 min ago
At least 14 people died and 15 others were wounded in an attack on the U.N. headquarters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday.
Categories: International News

The unifying power of 'Arab Idol'

4 hours 54 min ago
The opening theme's the same and the concept's no different, but "Arab Idol" is much more than just a popular singing competition.
Categories: International News

Analysts: North Korea talks follow well-worn path

5 hours 9 min ago
North Korea's bipolar swings between nuclear provocation and fawning overtures for talks now form part of a familiar pattern.
Categories: International News

9-cent hike leads to clashes in Brazil

5 hours 35 min ago
After a chorus of cries for social justice echoed through the streets of Brazil for days, protesters called for a time out Wednesday. Despite the anticipated lull in street marches, the government will beef up security with the deployment of elite police officers and firefighters.
Categories: International News

'Standing man' inspires silent demonstration in Turkey

Tue, 06/18/2013 - 8:23pm
A man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who had broken up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to his vigil.
Categories: International News
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