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Gordon Brown Says Paper Hired ‘Known Criminals’

LONDON — All three major parties rebuked Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, and a committee said it would call him to testify about the phone-hacking scandal.

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News Corporation defends its story about the illness of Gordon Brown’s son; a video archive of the House of Commons hearings.

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Gordon Brown recalled his anguish when he learned News of the World intended to publish information about his infant son’s illness obtained through private records.

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Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing

BEIJING — Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV building in Beijing is a metaphor for a country racing headlong into the future.

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Half Brother of Afghan President Is Killed in Kandahar

KABUL — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the provincial council chairman for Kandahar, was shot Tuesday at close range by a close family associate, family friends said.

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Liao Yiwu, one of the most persecuted writers in China, fled into self exile in Germany this week. While still in China, his writings on the plight of the country's downtrodden had earned him travel restrictions and threats from the police.
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Dissident Chinese Writer Flees to Germany

BEIJING — “I’m ecstatic,” said Liao Yiwu, one of China’s most persecuted writers, after he made it to Germany.

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A part of the site of Germany's new foreign intelligence headquarters in Berlin on Monday.
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Reports of Stolen Plans Concerns Germany

BERLIN — The classified plans for Germany’s new foreign intelligence headquarters in Berlin included highly specific information about the building’s infrastructure.

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Abu Hassan, with his wife, Umm, and their three children, are waiting for approval to leave Iraq for the United States.
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U.S. Visa Delays Imperil Iraqis

BAGHDAD — Terrorism fears in America are all but halting visas for Iraqis, even those who risked their lives for the war effort. Abu Hassan and his family are waiting for approval.

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The Mexican Navy displayed some of the weapons and army uniforms they seized as part of an operation against the Zetas drug cartel in June in Mexico.
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New Gun Sales Rules at Mexico-U.S. Border

WASHINGTON — The new reporting rules, which applies to sales in states along the Mexican border, is intended to hamper drug cartels. Above, the Mexican Navy displayed some of the weapons seized in a recent operation.

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Buster Haddock, an agricultural scientist at the University of Georgia, in a field where cotton never had the chance to grow.
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Drought Spreads Its Pain Across 14 States

COLQUITT, Ga. — The unseasonably early and particularly brutal drought could rival the Dust Bowl days. Above, a field of cotton in Georgia never had a chance to grow.

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Markets Weigh Concerns Over Italy’s Debt

PARIS — Wall Street was flat after stocks fell sharply in Europe and Asia over fears about Europe’s debt crisis.

Not Satisfied, Protesters Return to Tahrir Square

CAIRO — The spirit of revolution is alive in Egypt, but debates rage over who should rule, how they should rule and who should make those decisions.

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Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing

BEIJING — The CCTV building is a metaphor for the country’s future.

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Interactive Feature: Patient Voices: Macular Degeneration

How would your life be different if you couldn’t read a book, see your spouse’s face or drive? Here, six men and women speak about their lives with progressive vision loss.

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Kenzo Picks New York Retailers to Lead

The founders of Opening Ceremony have been chosen to be the creative directors of Kenzo.

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At Prado in Madrid, Rome’s Artistic Influence
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Fracking Water Killed Trees, Study Finds

Two years after hydraulic fracturing fluids were legally spread in an American forest, more than half of the trees there were dead.

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Packed in a Box, an Idea for City Transportation
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Worries About a Gonorrhea ‘Superbug’

Heath officials are warning that one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

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