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Pennsylvania-Sandusky-Trial (will update)
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury convicted him on 45 of 48 counts related to sexual abuse of boys, ending a painful chapter for victims and the entire university.
Egypt-Politics (will update)
Tensions soared in Egypt as an entire nation awaited presidential election results that are now expected to be announced Sunday afternoon.
Syria-Unrest (will update)
Just weeks after its parliamentary elections, Syria's besieged leadership announced the formation of a new government, state-run media reported Saturday.
Sudan-Protests (will update)
Sudanese protesters clashed with riot police in the capital of Khartoum on Saturday as crowds rallied for a seventh day against government spending cuts and austerity measures.
Israel-Gaza-Violence (will update)
Egypt mediated a truce between Israel and Gaza militants on Saturday, an effort to keep the lid on a deadly spurt of violence between the foes, the Hamas movement said.
Turkey-Syria-Plane (monitoring)
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul acknowledged Saturday that a Turkish military jet shot down by Syrian artillery may have entered Syria's airspace, according to the semi-official Anatolia news agency.
Paraguay-President
You can be forgiven if you did not hear the news about Paraguay impeaching its president. After all, it happened so fast that even Paraguay's neighbors are figuring out how to react. Paraguay, the small South American nation known as an "island surrounded by land," often goes unnoticed outside of South America. But there is an absorbing story behind the impeachment of Fernando Lugo that has turned into a regional crisis that is still unfolding. The impeachment procedures appear to have been carried out in accordance with the Paraguayan constitution, but some Latin American presidents are calling it a coup d'etat and refuse to recognize the new president, Federico Franco.
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US-Sandusky-Victim-Number-Six-Reaction -- By Ann O'Neill
His heart pounded under his striped, maroon polo shirt as the one they call Alleged Victim No. 6 waited in a packed courtroom Friday night to hear the verdicts in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case. He is 25 now, lean and broad shouldered with short brown hair and big dark eyes. For years, he struggled with the fact that Sandusky, a local football hero, crossed the line with him in a locker room shower in 1998. No. 6 was the only one of the accusers, the so-called "Sandusky 8," to come to court for the verdicts. He chewed gum with intensity, his jaws clenching and releasing as Sandusky, looking wan and bent in a brown sports jacket, lumbered into the courtroom shortly before 10 p.m. The jurors took their seats, looking tired and sad. One woman appeared to be crying.
US-AIDS-Quilt
Gert McMullin scurries about a cluttered storage space, keeping track of the thousands of pieces of folded fabric plucked off metal shelves and packed into blue cardboard containers for their journey to the nation's capital. The cloth panels are part of a quilt that has been her life these 25 years, since she began piecing together an American tragedy. In the early days, McMullin, 57, sewed her mailing address into the panels she made in memory of friends who died. She thought they would be returned to her once America defeated AIDS. She did not anticipate that a quarter century later, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, now 48,000 panels-strong, would still be growing.
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Pennsylvania-Sandusky-Trial
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury convicted him on 45 of 48 counts related to sexual abuse of boys, ending a painful chapter for victims and the entire university.

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