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Associated Press Qatari foreign minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani talks Thursday during an Arab League committee emergency meeting on Syria at the league's headquarters in Cairo ahead of an international peace conference to end the country's civil war.
Syrian regime OKs peace talks amid skepticism
BEIRUT — Syria’s government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Moscow. While this development might seem at first glance to be a step toward ending the civi...
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Associated Press Police officers guard a flat as it is being searched Thursday at Greenwich, southeast London. A member of the armed forces was attacked and killed by two men on Wednesday at nearby Woolwich.
Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack
LONDON — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations wi...
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Syria’s fighting uproots Mideast
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s fighting has uprooted more than half of the country’s 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is be...
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Military calls UK attack victim a model soldier
LONDON — The soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack in London was a popular 25-year-old ceremonial military drummer and machine gunner, a father and a passionate fan of the Manch...
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Man jailed in Pakistan killed by drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, offici...
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Associated Press Police and forensic officers investigate Wednesday near the scene of an attack that left one man confirmed dead and two people wounded near Woolwich barracks in London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault in the afternoon in Woolwich.
Terror attack leaves 1 dead
LONDON — In a brutal daylight attack that raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before polic...
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options
TEHRAN, Iran — By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran’s ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended...
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Associated Press Pope Francis lays his hands on the head of a young man on Sunday after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him.
The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four differe...
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Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syrian war
BEIRUT — Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria’s civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria activists ...
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Attacks in Iraq hint of spillover
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectari...
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