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at 00:59 on June 19, 2013, EDT.

One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed at Mexico beach resort

CANCUN, Mexico - A state prosecutor says one of the U.S. FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives has been arrested in the resort city of Playa del Carmen.

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at 00:24 on June 19, 2013, EDT.

NSA director defends sweeping surveillance program, says plot against Wall Street thwarted

WASHINGTON - The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying.

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at 00:17 on June 19, 2013, EDT.

Australian serial sex offender jailed for life for rape, murder of Irish woman

MELBOURNE, Australia - A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous convictions for raping five women.

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at 23:08 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

Mystery behind disappearance, death of Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa still fascinates after 40 years

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The latest possible resting place of Teamsters labour union boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being drowned out by a beeping backhoe, the chop of an overhead news helicopter and the bustle of reporters and onlookers.

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at 23:04 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

4-year-old girl mauled by dog in Bolivia to fly to Boston for reconstructive surgery

LA PAZ, Bolivia - A 4-year-old Bolivian girl who was unconscious for nearly three weeks after being mauled in the face and body by a Rottweiler is awake and ready to fly to Boston for reconstructive surgery, a doctor said Tuesday.

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at 22:58 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

Brazil protesters angry over poor services and high taxes keep up pressure at Sao Paulo march

SAO PAULO - About 50,000 protesters energetically returned to the streets of Brazil's biggest city Tuesday night, a demonstration of anger toward what they call a corrupt and inefficient government that has long ignored the demands of a growing middle class.

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at 21:41 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

Cluster bomb victims call on Canada to ratify convention to ban 'dirty' weapon

GENEVA - The last day of Ahmad Mokaled's short life dawned on a sunny spring February morning in the southern Lebanon town of Nabatieh.

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at 18:20 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

Hungary accuses ex-Canadian citizen, 98, of Nazi-era war crimes against Jews

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old former police officer, who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship, with torturing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps.

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at 20:58 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

Airborne laser spots ancient city complex of roads, canals hidden under dense Cambodian forest

SYDNEY - Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.

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at 20:50 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

Especially grim year for encephalitis feared in northern India as poverty, politics take toll

GORAKHPUR, India - A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade.

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at 19:23 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

Lil Wayne says he's not intentionally stepping on US flag in new music video

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Lil Wayne says he wasn't intentionally stepping on the U.S. flag when shooting his latest video.

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at 19:19 on June 18, 2013, EDT.

US, Taliban agree to hold talks on ending war in Afghanistan; Obama says process won't be easy

KABUL - The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the international coalition formally handed over control of the country's security to the Afghan army and police.

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