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BRUSSELS Weighed down by the years, Belgium s King Albert II announced Wednesday that he will hand the throne of his fractious kingdom to his son, Crown Prince Philippe, on the country s national holiday, July 21.The move had been rumored for weeks and will end nearly two decades of steady reign over a country increasingly torn apart by political strife between northern Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking southern Wallonia.Bel
crocs ying his frailty and 79 years of age, Albert stood upright and confident as he delivered the nationwide message to the cameras. Behind him, a massive portrait of Leopold I, the nation s first king in 1831, sternly looking down on him. Albert said his age and health no longer allowed him to carry out his functions as he d want to. I would not fulfill my duties, he said, if I clung at all cost to my position in these circumstances. Belgium has had six kings since independence and Albert is the f
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CORNWALL, England -- There s a reason Steve Weise and Bob Shapiro are being called the Calamity Crew. Their boat, The Nora, isn t so much an accident waiting to happen as it is an accident that keeps happening -- over and over again.Most recently, a fireman had to put out a blaze on board when a burning candle tipped over as boat hit the bottom at low tide. The Nora off the coast of Cornwall, England Another time, rescue services had to be called out at night off Scotland. And before that, they needed help off the coast of Ireland.So, how many times have they had to call for assistance during their voyage We called the Coast Guard 29 times, said Weise.And that s just since the boat left Norway last summer.
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Iraqi officials said Thursday that multinational forces detained as many as six Iranians in an overnight raid on Tehran s diplomatic mission in the northern city of Erbil.The forces stormed the building at about 3 a.m., detaining the five staffers and confiscating computers and documents, two senior local Kurdish officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Erbil is a city in the Kurdish-controlled north, 220 miles from Baghdad. There are reports that six people were detained but now we want clarification from the American side and from the Iranian side about these people and what they were doing there and whether they were employees, government spokesman Ali al-
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CARACAS, Venezuela ndash; Former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and herex-husband were gunned down late Monday night in front of their 5-year-old daughter while strugglingagainst aggressors attempting to rob them, according to authorities. Ex-Miss Venezuela killed in robbery 5 photos In a statement from the prosecutorrsquo office, it wasexplained that Spear, 29, and Henry Thomas Berry, 39, were on vacationwhen they were shot while awaiting a tow truck on the side of the road nearPuerto Cabello, Venezuela. Their daughter was harmed but in stable condition afterreceiving medical attention for undisclosed injuries. No ar
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ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani doctor accused of running a vaccination progra
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