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THE tourists taking pictures of John Kennedys relatively modest birthplace in Brookline on Presidents Day had not heard that the former presidents great-nephew had just entered the family business. But it seemed that everyone else in Massachusetts an

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CAIRO, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The polling stations of Egypt's Shura Council (upper house of parliament) elections closed Sunday on the first day of the two-day vote with a low turnout rate of voters. In the first stage of the upper house elections, vote

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The BBC has heard claims that Turkey is breaking international law by deporting Syrian refugees back to Syria. Refugees told a BBC investigation that Syrians who are trying to cross from Turkey into Greece were detained and returned to Syria against