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Mysterious 'insurance file' posted on WikiLeaks
AFP  |  WASHINGTON (AFP) — Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has posted a mysterious encrypted "insurance file," touching off speculation about what it contains. | 8 hours ago
Iraq death toll in July highest in more than two years
AFP  |  BAGHDAD (AFP) — July was the deadliest month in Iraq since May 2008 with a total of 535 people killed across the country as a result of violence, according to government figures ... | 10 hours ago
Frenchman, 80, freed after year in wife's laundry prison
AFP  |  ARROU, France (AFP) — An 80-year-old Frenchman was recovering in a state of shock in hospital on Saturday after being freed from a year locked in a laundry room by a wife half ... | 10 hours ago
Brazil offers asylum to Iranian woman sentenced to death
AFP  |  BRASILIA (AFP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula on Saturday offered to give asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, according to news reports. | 10 hours ago