Now that they’ve saved the world on film, “The Avengers” are teaming up for a motion-control video game.
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AP NewsBreak: Ubisoft assembling Avengers for game
It was frenzy on Friday for Americans hoping to win what was described as “the world’s largest jackpot” of $640 million in an historic lottery.
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Record breaking US lottery prize hits $640 million
AP – The U.S. and its allies dismissed the Syrian regime’s referendum on a new constitution Sunday as a “farce” meant to justify the bloody crackdown on dissent.
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West dismisses Syria constitution vote as ‘farce’
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AP – The world’s worst prison fire in a century happened in a lockup like many in Honduras: a decrepit, suffocating place of overcrowded, dark cellblocks where many inmates were accused only of petty crimes.
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Deadly Honduran fire could occur across region
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AP – After months of wavering, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took a decisive step Monday toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant group Hamas, a move Israel promptly warned would close the door to any future peace talks.
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Palestinians take step toward unity
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AP – Croatians voted Sunday in a referendum on whether to join the European Union — a test of how much the debt-stricken 27-nation bloc has lost in its appeal among aspiring new members.
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Croats vote in EU membership referendum
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AP – The U.N. chief demanded Sunday that Syria’s president stop killing his own people and said the “old order” of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East on a day when activists said 27 people died.
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UN chief says Syrian president must stop violence
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AP – A hot air balloon carrying 11 people turned into a horrifying tower of “sheer flame” Saturday after hitting power lines near a rural New Zealand town, police and witnesses said. All aboard were killed in the deadliest air crash in New Zealand in nearly 50 years.
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Hot air balloon bursts into flames in NZ; 11 dead
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AP – Government forces surrounded residents of a restive Syrian village in a valley and killed all those trapped inside — more than 100 people — in a barrage of rockets, tank shells, bombs and gunfire that lasted for hours, a witness and two activist groups said Wednesday.
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Activists say Syrian troops kill 100 in village
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