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WASHINGTON — President Obama pressed China on Monday to improve its record on human rights, while declining to discuss Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer who escaped house arrest last week.
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JERUSALEM — Ehud Barak offered a dim view of talks on Iran’s nuclear program in a speech on Monday, and said all options, including a military strike, remained on the table despite weeks of criticism over the stance.
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KUALA LUMPUR — A rally supporting free elections over the weekend spiraled out of control when protesters broke through barricades in Kuala Lumpur.
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Kathryn Cook for The New York Times Giugliano in Campania Journal
GIUGLIANO IN CAMPANIA, Italy — Counterfeiting is a cottage industry in the region, accounting for more than half of the 550,000 to 800,000 fake euro notes pulled from circulation annually by the central bank.
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Office of the President, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is enjoying a surge of support and nationalism in a feud over Abu Musa, an island claimed by Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Above, his visit to Abu Musa.
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Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Two state troopers who were deployed in Iraq are using their counterinsurgency training for a program to combat drug and gang violence in Springfield, Mass.
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BEIJING — Accounts of Bo Guagua’s reportedly lavish arrival at Jon M. Huntsman Jr.’s home in China last spring have been disputed by several people.
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WASHINGTON — John O. Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, said strikes that target suspected militants come after extensive deliberations.
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A vast expanse of fossilized trees more than 300 million years old — called a “botanical Pompeii” — could extend as much as 100 miles underneath southern Illinois.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Mitt Romney tried to tie President Obama to President Jimmy Carter, a former president considered to be weak on national security issues.
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Manchester City closed in on its first Premier League title in 44 years by beating Manchester United.
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