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Dressed mainly in white and carrying white balloons, the marchers held banners warning against same-sex marriage and demanding parents’ right to control sex education in schools.
Israel’s prime minister said Saturday he hopes President Obama refrains from pushing for a Palestinian state in his final months in office.
Obama is said to be considering a major speech or a U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution that lays out what he sees as the contours of any viable deal.
London police are investigating the reported hacking of the iCloud account of Pippa Middleton, younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, and the alleged theft of 3,000 photographs.
Waving Polish and European Union flags, thousands of Poles marched Saturday in downtown Warsaw in a protest against the conservative government, whose policies critics say are dividing the nation and leading it away from EU values.
The group has organized regular protests against Poland’s 10-month-old Law and Justice government and party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
Suicide bombing: A triple suicide bombing against a security checkpoint north of Baghdad killed at least 11 members of the security forces Saturday, a police officer said.
The spokesman for the Salahuddin province police force, Col. Mohammed al-Jabouri, said three militants rammed their explosives-laden vehicles early Saturday into the main checkpoint near the town of al-Salam at the province’s northern entrance.