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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Rodney King found dead in his pool

RIALTO, Calif., June 17 (UPI) -- Rodney King, whose 1991 videotaped beating by police rocked Los Angeles, died in an apparent swimming-pool drowning Sunday, police said. King, 47, was found around dawn at the bottom of the pool of his Rialto home by his fiancée and his death was being investigated... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Egyptians go to polls to elect president

CAIRO, June 16 (UPI) -- Egyptians voted in presidential elections Saturday to choose between the ousted Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and a Muslim Brotherhood candidate. The election comes a day after Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved Parliament and ruled the former Mubarak regime... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Egypt election law ruling spawns protests

CAIRO, June 14 (UPI) -- Protests erupted Thursday after Egypt's High Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a law used to elect about a third of the country's Parliament. Gates surrounding the court in Cairo were locked and citizens were locked inside, Ahram Online reported. Iron barricades... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Thousands march through Moscow

MOSCOW, June 12 (UPI) -- Political activists converged Tuesday on downtown Moscow in the pouring rain for a massive anti-Kremlin march, observers said. RIA Novosti said the red Communist flag predominated but nationalists and democrats were also in attendance at the Russia Day rally. The March of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 11, 2012

Opposition chief urges officials to defect

DAMASCUS, Syria, June 11 (UPI) -- The new leader of the opposition Syrian National Council called on government officials to defect while heavy gunfire rocked the country Monday. Speaking in Istanbul, Turkey, Abdulbaset Sieda also stressed the council rejects foreign intervention in the Syrian... Sign in to see full entry.

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