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Brazil police arrest 9 for abusing Indian girls

SAO PAULO — Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of Amazonas.
Asif Ali Zardari likely will lose Pakistan’s presidency – and immunity from prosecution

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, will certainly lose his job in September – and like his predecessor, retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he’s likely to face criminal charges under the government of newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover

BEIRUT — Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years.
Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality

HUSBY, Sweden — Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week.
Military calls UK attack victim a model soldier

LONDON — The soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack in London was a popular 25-year-old ceremonial military drummer and machine gunner, a father and a passionate fan of the Manchester United soccer team, the British military said Thursday.
Israel to discuss military draft reform proposal

JERUSALEM — An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government.
Turks and Caicos recovers cash, land amid probe

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians.
Syrian refugee exodus to Jordan has slowed to trickle, U.N. says

BAGHDAD — The flow of refugees crossing from Syria into Jordan has all but stopped in the last six days amid heavy fighting in the area and claims by Syrians that Jordanian border guards are preventing them from entering.
Canada terror suspect: Lawyer must use 'holy book'

TORONTO — A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida asked Thursday to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as a reference in his case.
Israel says Iran unaffected by world pressure

JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear program.
AP PHOTOS: Egypt's languishing Islamic antiquities

CAIRO — Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets.
15 injured in clash with security forces in Guinea

CONAKRY, Guinea — A government spokesman says at least 15 people were injured, four of them by bullet wounds, during a protest in Guinea's capital between opposition parties and security forces. The clashes are the latest iteration in the ongoing fight between the country's opposition and the ruling party over the details of a much-delayed parliamentary election.
S. Sudan leader: Int'l court 'humiliates' Africa

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders.
Muslim hardliners ID London terror suspect

LONDON — Two Muslim hardliners say the man seen wielding a bloody butcher's knife after the killing of a British soldier is a Muslim convert who took part in demonstrations with the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun.
Cayman opposition will lead coalition gov't

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Election officials in the Cayman Islands say the opposition party has won nine of 18 seats, one short of a majority needed to control the British territory's legislature.