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Blast at Moscow Bus Stop was Caused by Hand Grenade

Five people were lightly injured when a grenade exploded at a bus stop in central Moscow, authorities said Tuesday.

The hand grenade went off Monday night on Pokrovka Street, a trendy area in central Moscow dotted with bars and restaurants, Moscow police spokesman Alexei Shapkin told AFP.

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Spain's Aragon Region: A Bellwether for General Elections

Aragon is to Spain like Ohio is to the United States: for more than 30 years this northeastern region has always voted for the winner of general elections, and this year should prove no exception.

Polls predict a small victory for the ruling Conservative Popular Party (PP) in December 20 elections but without an absolute majority, which would force it to get into bed with another party -- or see others grab power by forming unlikely alliances.

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Political Upsets Mark Dark Days for Latin Left

Recent electoral upsets in Argentina and Venezuela could herald a crumbling of the leftist bloc that has prevailed in Latin America over much of the past two decades, analysts say.

Tumbling commodity prices have thrown the region into economic turbulence, while many voters are said to be tiring of their leftist leaders -- though those in countries such as Ecuador and Bolivia seem to be going strong.

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Nicaragua's Leader Says Ally Venezuela Will Overcome Poll Defeat

The defeat of Venezuela's ruling Socialists in legislative elections on the weekend was but a temporary setback, a key leftist ally in Latin America, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, said Monday.

"As difficult as the horizon seems, we have no doubt: we will live on, and we will win," Ortega said in a public letter sent to his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro.

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Kerry Edges out Clinton in U.S. Diplo-Miles Race

Hillary Clinton often boasts of her record globetrotting mileage as U.S. secretary of state, but she has been bested by an even more frequent flier: her successor John Kerry, officials said Monday.

According to a State Department tally, Kerry has now traveled 957,744 miles (1.541 million kilometers) since taking office in February 2013.

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U.S. Supreme Court Gives Nod to Assault Weapons Ban

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared on Monday to back lawmakers who want to restrict the type of guns such as semi-automatic assault weapons used in recent mass shootings.

In a 7-2 vote, the high court's justices refused to take up a challenge to a Chicago suburb's ban on the sale or possession of semi-automatic weapons or high-capacity magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

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Trump's Latest Tirade: Bar Muslims from Entering U.S.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump called Monday for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States, unleashing some of the most provocative and divisive remarks of his controversial presidential campaign.

The stunning statement followed last week's mass shooting in California by a Muslim couple believed to have been radicalized by extremists, and landed with a thunderclap just as fellow presidential candidates were contemplating ways to improve national security.

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U.S. Deploys P-8 Poseidon Spy Plane in Singapore amid South China Sea Row

The United States has deployed a P-8 Poseidon spy plane in Singapore for the first time ever, both countries said, amid simmering regional tensions over Beijing's island-building in the disputed South China Sea.

China is locked in a territorial dispute with four Southeast Asian countries -- including Washington allies Vietnam and the Philippines -- and the U.S. in October sent a warship near the disputed Spratly Islands chain, arguing for its right to freedom of navigation.  

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Three Injured in Blast at Moscow Bus Stop

Three people were injured on Monday night when an improvised explosive device detonated at a Moscow bus stop, TASS state news agency said.

Police in the Russian capital confirmed to AFP that "an explosion took place at a bus stop on Pokrovka Road," in the city center.

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FBI Says Both California Shooters 'Radicalized for Quite Some Time'

The husband and wife who killed 14 people in last week's shooting rampage in California were both radicalized and "for quite some time," the FBI official in charge of the investigation said Monday.

David Bowdich, the FBI's assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles field office, said investigators were still trying to determine how and by whom Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik were radicalized before the December 2 shooting.

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