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Time.com - This weekend, Francisco Franco devotees who make the annual trip to his tomb in the Valley of the Fallen will find the basilica closed. The government says it’s…

Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will probably win narrow approval from his coalition government for a U.S. proposal to extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building, Israeli political…

Reuters - Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare.

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Reuters - Iraq’s fractious politicians have agreed to return Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister, ending an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian war, but leaving some Sunnis…

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iraq on Monday to develop an inclusive power-sharing government, but would not confirm the country was close to striking agreement on…

Reuters - Al Qaeda in Yemen has warned kinsmen of a U.S. born radical preacher against collaborating with the government, according to a statement from the group that appeared to…

AP - Britain’s Treasury chief George Osborne says the country’s government will make the largest cuts to public spending since World War II — slashing benefits and public sector jobs…

AP - Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, and injuring 17 others, authorities said.…

AP - A Russian police spokesman says at least six people are dead after insurgents stormed the Chechen parliament complex, including the insurgents and two others.

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Time.com - The Kurds are key to Maliki’s ability to form his ruling coalition. TIME asks the head of Iraq’s Kurdish regional government for his assessment

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