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This comes two days after authorities broke up Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in the Egyptian capital with the loss of at least 638 lives.

US President Barack Obama has strongly condemned the violence against Egyptian civilians, and has cancelled joint military exercises.

BEIJING (AP):TENS OF thousands of people were evacuated as a powerful typhoon thundered into southern China on Wednesday after shutting down the bustling Asian financial centre of Hong Kong and sinking a cargo ship.Packing high winds and torrential...

The former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr and his wife pleaded guilty to misusing $750,000 in campaign money on splurges such as a gold-plated Rolex watch, vacations and mounted elk heads.

"I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland," Winfrey said Monday night at the Los Angeles premiere of "Lee Daniels: The Butler."

HARARE (AP): ZIMBABWE's LONGTIME president, Robert Mugabe, said Monday his party would not yield its victory in disputed elections and proclaimed he has disposed of his main political rivals, with whom he had ruled in a tense coalition government, "like garbage"....

NEW YORK (AP):The New York Police Depar-tment deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled...

In a ruling in Manhattan Federal District Court, Judge Shira Scheindlin said the policy was unconstitutional and appointed a monitor to reform the practice.

A New Hampshire man used a handgun to shoot his 9-year-old son to death before taking his own life during supervised visitation at a YWCA office in the state's largest city, officials said Sunday.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges, Lon Snowden and his attorney said.

The US closed 19 diplomatic missions in the Middle East and Africa last Sunday in response to what it said was a threat of a terrorist attack.

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York made the announcement a day after a grand jury in the Bronx, New York refused to re-indict white police officer Richard Haste.