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Police uproot protest camp in Moscow

Russian youth opposition protesters gather near the monument of Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbaev, top right, in the opposition camp at the Chistiye Prudy, or Clean Ponds, where they vowed to continue the roving protest in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 15, 2012. There are no posters, no tents, no insistent drummers, and no looming police, but the small throng in one of Moscow's most sylvan parks is a remarkable protest gathering all the same.Since the middle of last week, opposition activists have tested authorities and themselves by maintaining an around-the-clock presence in a corner of the park that runs down the middle of Chistoprudny Boulevard, near the pond that gives the street its name.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police arrested about 20 protesters on Wednesday night at a central Moscow square where demonstrators had moved after police uprooted them from a camp, the latest move in a broadening crackdown on the forces opposing President Vladimir Putin.

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Ratko Mladic’s genocide trial gets under way

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is seen at the start of his trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday May 16, 2012. Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, Mladic has gone on trial on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, his appearance at the UN tribunal marks the end of a long wait for justice to survivors of the 1992-95 war that left some 100,000 people dead. (AP Photo/Toussaint Kluiters, Pool)

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — He’s no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo “in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial began Wednesday, Ratko Mladic still managed to reopen old wounds with the flick of his hand.

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Syrian leader says terrorists are behind unrest

In this Monday, June 20, 2011 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus, Syria, at Damascus University. In his first interview in six months, Syrian President Bashar Assad insists his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries and not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a year-long uprising. (AP Photo/SANA, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

BEIRUT (AP) — In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising.

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Egypt Brotherhood takes harder line in campaign

In this Monday, April 30, 2012 file photo, Egyptian supporters of Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, wave posters of him with Arabic that reads, "Mohammed Morsi for Egyptian presidency," during a campaigning conference in Cairo Egypt. On the campaign trail for the presidential election, now only nine days away, the Muslim Brotherhood has taken a sharp turn rightward, becoming bolder in saying it wants to bring a state where religiosity and Islamic law play a major role and insisting that it has the right to rule. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

CAIRO (AP) — At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi’s praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt’s Nile Delta.

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2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister

Police inspect the scene after a bomb exploded in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, May 15, 2012. A bomb targeting former Colombian interior minister Fernando Londono killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 others in the heart of Bogota's uptown commercial district, authorities said.  (AP Photo/Carlos Julio Martinez)

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian investigators on Wednesday were seeking a man between 17 and 20 years old they say could be the bomber who killed two bodyguards of a conservative former interior minister and injured 39 people in a busy commercial district of Bogota.

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