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World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post The Washington Post World section provides information and analysis of breaking world news stories. In addition to our world news and video, Post World News offers discussions and blogs on major international news and economic issues.

Egypt's judges set to fight Morsi power play Nov 24th 2012, 22:43 CAIRO — Egypt's association of judges called Saturday for the judicial system to come to a halt to fight an assertion of near-absolute power by the nation's first democratically elected president, setting the stage for a confrontation between the courts and a man who has said his will is not subject to appeal. Read full article >> For Palestinians, Gaza conflict deepens sense of futility with nonviolent approach toward Israel Nov 24th 2012, 22:41 RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hamas's latest battle against Israel sparked feverish Palestinian pride that spread beyond the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority-led West Bank. But it has also deepened a sense of futility here with the authority's nonviolent, diplomacy-based approach to winning a Palestinian state. Read full article >> Unverified remains dig up the twisted legacy of England's Richard III Nov 24th 2012, 19:37 LONDON — Tyrant or hero? Rightful monarch or child-killer? Despotic hunchback or brave scoliosis sufferer? Now is the winter of our debate over one of England's most notorious villains: Richard III. Underneath a drab parking lot 90 miles northwest of London, archaeologists have unearthed what may become one of this nation's finds of the century — half-a-millennium-old bones thought to be the remains of the long-lost monarch. But if the discovery has touched off a feverish round of DNA tests against his closest living descendants, it has also lurched to the surface a series of burning questions in a country where even arcane points of history are disputed with the gusto of modern-day politics. Read full article >> Christo's next project: a giant, pyramid-like sculpture in Abu Dhabi (photos) Nov 24th 2012, 19:32 Christo, the Hungarian artist who wrapped Paris's Pont Neuf andcovered Floridian islands in pink, has a new project in the works: He plans to eclipse the Great Pyramid of Giza with a giant, pyramid-like structure of his own. Read full article >> Obama's pick for CIA could affect drone program Nov 24th 2012, 19:27 President Obama began his first term with a dramatic change of course for the CIA, issuing orders on his second day in office to close the agency's secret prisons and ban harsh interrogation techniques. Read full article >> Afghan's Shiite minority fears a return to old ostracism Nov 24th 2012, 18:14 KABUL — For the past week, the Afghan capital has been draped with black cloth arches and festooned with huge colored banners. Mournful, pounding chants pour from loudspeakers across the city, filling the air with slow martial intensity. Read full article >> Egyptians set fire to Muslim Brotherhood offices Nov 24th 2012, 17:30 Assailants attacked the hundreds of protesters who marched on Egypt's High Judiciary Court in downtown Cairo to protest against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's recent decree granting himself near-absolute powers, including freeing his decisions from judicial review and ordering retrials for former top officials, including his predecessor, the deposed Hosni Mubarak. Read full article >>

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