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Iran began 10 days of festivities on Saturday marking the 30th anniversary of its Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah and brought hard-line clerics to power.

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The biggest gains in the Gaza war have gone to the hard-liners on both sides. Hamas is declaring victory, while Israel's leading hawk is the front-runner in elections just over a week away.

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An angry Afghan man with a thick black beard ranted wildly at the U.S. officials, shouting about how their overnight raid had killed 16 civilians in his village. An Afghan elder cried out in grief that his son and four grandsons were among the dead.

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KINSHASA, Jan 31 – Rwandan and Ugandan troops deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo to fight rebels will return home by the end of February, Congolese President Joseph Kabila told journalists in the capital Kinshasa on Saturday.

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ANTANANARIVO, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Madagascar's president said on Saturday he was still at the helm of the island's government, hours after an opposition leader told thousands of anti-government protesters he had taken over.

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TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Saturday any protectionist moves by the United States or other countries would meet resistance around the world but Canada would not erect trade barriers of its own.

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JUBA, Sudan, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Senior south Sudanese politicians on Saturday accused government officials of withholding funding from the country's contested oil town of Abyei, stoking tensions and raising the risk of new violence.

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A Sri Lankan government deadline for Tamil Tiger rebels to let civilians leave the northern conflict zone ended Saturday with only about a hundred reaching safe areas. The government accused the insurgents of holding the civilians as human shields.

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The U.S. military says two Iraqi policemen were killed after they opened fire on U.S. soldiers conducting an operation against al-Qaida near the northern city of Mosul.

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The "War on Terror" is losing the war of words.