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  • Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smiles during her visit to the Manchester Central convention centre, Manchester, England, Friday, March 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Jon Super, Pool)

    Royal gatecrasher: U.K. queen drops in on wedding

    By Associated Press

    A British couple say their wedding had an unlikely gatecrasher — as Queen Elizabeth II dropped in on the ceremony during an official tour. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • Social activists and local residents shout slogans against the Maoists during a protest rally demanding the release of two abducted Italians and a local lawmaker in Bhubaneswar, India, Saturday, March 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

    Maoist rebels kidnap lawmaker in east India

    By Sujoy Dhar - Special to The Washington Times

    Maoist rebels on Saturday kidnapped a lawmaker in the eastern state of Odisha, halting negotiations for the release of two Italian hostages the rebels have held for 10 days. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, left, looks on as Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by children at the airport in Silao, Mexico, Friday March 23, 2012. Benedict's weeklong trip to Mexico and Cuba is his first to both countries. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

    Pope’s arrival in Mexico sparks surprising emotion

    By Adriana Gomez-Licon and Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

    There was little excitement in Leon in the hours before the pope arrived. Then, as Pope Benedict XVI’s plane appeared in the shimmering heat of Friday afternoon, people poured from their homes. They packed sidewalks five and six deep, screaming ecstatically as the pope passed, waving slowly. Some burst into tears. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • An unidentified man with his head covered, believed to be Abdelkader Merah or his companion, sits between masked police officers as they head to the French police's anti-terrorist headquarters in Levallois-Perret, outside Paris, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Merah's brother, Mohamed Merah is blamed for a series of deadly shootings which have shocked France and upended the country's presidential race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

    Lawyer says French gunman’s mother is released

    By Raphael Satter - Associated Press

    Authorities investigating France’s deadly shooting rampage have released the mother of the Islamist fanatic blamed for the killings but were questioning his older brother to determine whether he served as an accomplice, officials said Saturday. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • An anti-Syrian regime protester holds a Syrian revolution flag and chants slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

    Activists: Syrian troops storm northwestern town

    By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

    Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed a northwestern town on Saturday in the latest of a series of pushes by regime forces into rebel-held areas, but faced strong resistance from defending army defectors, activists said. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • Kazakh film industry hopes to erase ‘Borat’ image

    By Ruby Russell - Special to The Washington Times

    Fame is a hard thing to shake, especially fame as pervasive as the 2006 mockumentary “Borat.” But Kazakh filmmakers are aiming to shake off that film’s image and energize their country’s movie industry with a big budget historical epic, “Myn Bala,” which opens next month in theaters in the Central Asian nation. Published March 23, 2012 Comments

  • Zimbabwe probes Trump brothers’ hunting trip

    By Gillian Gotora - Associated Press

    Zimbabwean conservationists said Friday they are investigating the legality of a hunting spree in the country by the heirs to U.S. magnate Donald Trump’s fortune after photos showed up online of the brothers posing with dead game animals. Published March 23, 2012 Comments

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  • Obama administration grants protected status to Syrians

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday said she will grant special status to Syrians currently in the U.S., allowing them to stay here past their current visas while their home country remains in turmoil.

  • U.S. soldier charged in Afghan shooting rampage

    By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

    U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offense that could lead to the death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said.

  • Syrian activists: Clashes near Turkish border

    By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

    Syrian government forces fired machine guns and mortar rounds Friday in fierce clashes with rebel army defectors in a town near the Turkish border, a Syrian activist group reported, as a European Union official said the wife of Syria's president will be hit with a travel ban and have her assets in the EU frozen.

  • Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank

    By Julie Pace - Associated Press

    President Obama on Friday nominated Dartmouth College president and global health expert Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank, an unconventional pick that could help to quell criticism in the developing world of the U.S. stranglehold on the international organization's top post.

  • Tuareg rebels take Mali town, threaten 3 more

    By Baba Ahmed and Michelle Faul - Associated Press

    Tuareg rebels on Friday threatened three strategic northern Mali towns, including the famed ancient city of Timbuktu, as leaders of the two-month-old rebellion took advantage of a power vacuum caused when government soldiers stormed the presidential palace and ousted the democratically elected president.

  • Taliban bomber kills 5 rival militants in Pakistan

    By Associated Press

    A government official and militant spokesman said a Taliban suicide bomber has attacked a rival group's headquarters in northwest Pakistan, killing at least five fighters.

  • EU slaps sanctions on Assad's wife, relatives

    By Don Melvin and John Heilprin - Associated Press

    EU foreign ministers have slapped sanctions on the wife and other close relatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad, freezing their assets and banning them from traveling to the EU in a continuing attempt to stop the violent crackdown on opposition, officials said Friday.

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