By Noah Browning and Ali Sawafta DURA, West Bank (Reuters) – In his sparse village home adorned only with framed verses from the Quran, Mohammed Ghannam opens his shirt, pointing silently to his bruised chest. Ghannam, 44, whose job was to deliver the call to prayer in Dura's local mosque, said plainclothes security forces from the Palestinian Authority (PA) detained him last month for belonging to the Islamist movement Hamas and beat him mute. “They didn't ask me any questions, just punched me hard in the face and the chest,” he wrote limply on a notepad. …

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By Joe Brock MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nuradin Mohammed used to resent and fear the troops who swept past his fish stall in this northeast Nigerian city on the trail of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram. Now, for the first time, he thinks they may be on his side. “We are pleased the president has finally recognized our peril and we pray his plan works,” Mohammed said, frying fish by the roadside as a crowd of young children looked on hungrily and trucks packed with troops rumbled past. …

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CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon says he is returning his winner's medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the terrorist bombings near the finish line of one of the world's top running events.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a “massive” number of new long-range missile launchers.

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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the country's financial institutions have sufficient buffers against losses they may incur from rises in bond yields, as long as the market moves are driven by prospects of an economic recovery. The central bank will also be vigilant to any signs of overheating of asset prices or excessive risk-taking by financial institutions, the BOJ chief said, adding that there were no signs of that now. …

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(Reuters) – Angel Pagan belted a rare walk-off inside-the-park home run to push world champion San Francisco past the Colorado Rockies 6-5 in 10 innings on Saturday. Troy Tulowitski's solo homer in the top of the 10th had given the Rockies a 5-4 lead but Pagan's blast found the right field wall and the angled bounce gave him and Brandon Crawford time to beat the relay throws for the winning runs. The two-run effort meant Pagan became the first player to end the game with an inside-the-park homer since Rey Sanchez managed the feat for the Devil Rays in 2004. …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – A section of a cross-country gas pipeline in China exploded on Sunday, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, local media said. The second west-east natural gas pipeline, which transports gas from central Asia to south China, exploded in an industrial zone in China’s southeastern province of Jiangxi, state news agency Xinhua said. The pipeline has a capacity to transport 30 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Energy released from the explosion knocked over people hundreds of meters away, Xinhua said, without detailing the length of the exploded pipeline. …

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The woman hired to clean up Rutgers’ scandal-scarred athletic program quit as Tennessee’s women’s volleyball coach 16 years ago after her players submitted a letter complaining she ruled through humiliation, fear and emotional abuse, The Star-Ledger reported Saturday night on its website.

Read more here: Report: New controversy at scandal-scarred Rutgers

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security officials say two rockets have slammed into a Beirut neighborhood that is a Hezbollah stronghold, wounding 3 people.

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