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Associated Press Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration Friday in Damascus, Syria, in this citizen journalism image. On Sunday, Syria denied U.N. claims that government forces used heavy weapons during a military operation that left scores dead.
Red Cross declares conflict in Syria to be all-out civil war
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s 16-month bloodbath crossed an important symbolic threshold Sunday as the international Red Cross formally declared the conflict a civil war, a status with implications for...
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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 27, 2010 file photo, Israeli earth-moving equipment works in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Netafim, near the West Bank village of Salfit. The Israeli government has quietly agreed to grant subsidies to build more than 500 new homes in the West Bank, backtracking from a promise earlier this year to deny these incentives to the settlements, the AP has learned. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh, File)
Israel to grant settlement subsidy
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has quietly agreed to grant subsidies to build more than 500 new homes in the West Bank, backtracking from a promise earlier this year to deny these incentives to...
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Well-known Afghan commander among 23 dead in blast
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who w...
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Associated Press A sniper with Royal Air Force Regiment Sniper sights through his scope from inside an RAF Puma helicopter at RAF Northolt ahead of carrying out air security duties for Op Olympic on Friday in London. Royal Air Force Puma Helicopters and Typhoon fighter jets along with Royal Navy Sea King helicopters are arriving at RAF Northolt ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games to carry out air security. Aircraft that fail to comply with procedures within a restricted airspace zone around Olympic venues could be subject to "lethal force" from the military, it was revealed Friday.
Security boss sorry for spoiled contract
LONDON — The boss of British security group G4S said Saturday he was sorry that his company had bungled the contract to help protect the 2012 Olympic Games, a humbling televised apology that follow...
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Associated Press A statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, unveiled Saturday in Gdansk, Poland, shows the late leaders who are highly revered in Poland for their role in helping to topple communism.
Poles honor John Paul, Reagan with statue
GDANSK, Poland — Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helpi...
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Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the presidential palace Saturday in Cairo. Clinton hoped to use her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to steer him toward opening a dialogue with the military that could end the country's political crisis.
Clinton to Egypt’s Morsi: Find way out of crisis
CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt’s new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of prese...
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London’s Times demands that it simply stop raining
LONDON — Just. Stop. Raining. That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons’ growing frustration with months of miserable weather. ...
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Sophisticated drug tunnels found
TIJUANA, Mexico — Four drug smuggling tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation — including one with a railcar system — have been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in less than a week, t...
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Massacre in Syria kills more than 100
BEIRUT — Syrian activists reported a new massacre late Thursday in the central Hama province, saying regime forces killed more than 100 people in shelling and other attacks. There were few detai...
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Gendarmes use blankets to hide victims of an avalanche at Chamonix rescue base, French Alps, Thursday, July, 12, 2012. An avalanche in the French Alps swept six European climbers to their deaths on a slope leading to Mont Blanc, and left at least nine others injured and several climbers unaccounted for, authorities said. Two climbers were rescued and emergency crews are searching for the missing. A group of 28 climbers from Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Denmark and Serbia are believed to be in the expedition caught in the avalanche that was about 4,000 meters (13,1000 feet) high on the north face of Mont Maudit, part of the Mont Blanc range. (AP Photo)
9 dead in Mont Blanc avalanche
CHAMONIX, France — They set out before dawn, hoping to conquer a mountaineering classic: Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s highest peak. But below the prized summit, a climber is believed to have accide...
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