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Associated Press Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) meets with Fahd Jassem al-Freij, Syria's new defense minister, July 19 in Damascus, Syria.
Assad has many generals to fight rebels in Syria
BEIRUT — The Syrian regime appears to have absorbed the shock it suffered in the heaviest blow against it yet in Syria’s 17-month-old upheaval — a bombing that killed four top aides. The blast r...
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2 U.S. climbers missing on Peru found dead
LIMA, Peru — Searchers on Saturday found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who apparently plunged to their deaths off a ridge after ascending a glacier-capped 20,000-foot Peruvian peak, the rescu...
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Hugo Chavez steps up campaign after cancer fight
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated his 58th birthday at a re-election campaign rally Saturday, appearing vigorous after declaring himself free of cancer earlier this m...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu March 5 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. While Israel remains the United States' best closest Middle Eastern ally, security officials consider them a threat to counterintelligence.
US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat
WASHINGTON — The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find...
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Associated Press Fencer Mariel Zagunis leads Team USA into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games on Friday in London.
Royalty and rock: Britain opens its Olympics
LONDON — The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who. And the cr...
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Associated Press British Prime Minister David Cameron (second from left) and Sebastian Coe, London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games chairman, walk past the Aquatics Center during a visit to the Olympic Park on Thursday in London. Cameron has had to apologize profusely for a mistake that resulted in South Korea's flag being displayed rather than North Korea's on a giant screen ahead of Pyongyang's inaugural women's soccer match Wednesday night.
On world stage, culture clashes inevitable
LONDON — In a way it was inevitable, given the size and scope of the event that is taking place in this most multicultural of capitals. But the Olympic-sized political gaffes and cultural goofs ...
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Associated Press Syrians hold an anti-government protest Friday in Aleppo, Syria. International concern over a potential massacre rose Friday as Syrian troops moved in against the rebels.
Fears grow over fate of Syrian city of Aleppo
BEIRUT — International concern was mounting Friday over a potential massacre as Syrian troops bombarded the besieged city of Aleppo with artillery, strafed it with aircraft and reportedly pulled in...
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Roman holiday: UK boy flies without passport
LONDON — The 11-year-old boy didn’t have a passport, didn’t have a ticket, didn’t have a boarding pass, and got all the way from England to Italy on his own. For him, the 1,000-mile journey was ...
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North Korea confirms Kim is married
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by confirming that the mystery woman beside young leader Kim Jong Un at recent public events is indeed his wife, “comrade Ri So...
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Associated Press A Syrian woman who recently fled her country sits with her daughter inside a government school Monday in Marj, Lebanon. After a weeklong siege in the Syrian capital, Damascus, residents who stayed behind are facing hours-long queues for petrol and bread, piles of rubbish in the streets and scenes of destruction while thousands of Syrians have escaped to Lebanon over the past week.
Syrian rebels routed in capital fight elsewhere
BEIRUT — Fighter jets unleashed sonic booms and helicopter gunships strafed rebels as they pressed their fight Tuesday into new neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Farther south, ground ...
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