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Associated Press Syrian rebels listen to their trainer on how to use a rocket propelled grenade Dec. 17 in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria. America's Arab allies have dramatically stepped up weapon supplies to Syrian rebels in preparation for a push on the capital Damascus.
Officials: Shipments of weapons to Syrian rebels rising sharply
AMMAN, Jordan — Mideast powers opposed to President Bashar Assad have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S. in preparation for a push on the capita...
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Associated Press A South Korean army K1 tank fires live rounds Wednesday during an exercise at Seungjin Fire Training Field in mountainous Pocheon, South Korea. North Korea said Wednesday that it had cut off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North.
North Korea cuts military hotline
SEOUL, South Korea — Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea cut its last military hotline with Seoul on Wednesday, saying there was no need to continue military communications bet...
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Russian teen complains of adoptive US parents
MOSCOW — A teenager adopted by an American couple has returned to Russia, claiming that his adoptive family treated him badly and that he lived on the streets of Philadelphia and stole just to surv...
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Drug war death tolls remain uncertain
REYNOSA, Mexico — Hours of intense gun battles in Reynosa on March 10 gave way to an official body count the next day of a head-scratching two. The men who handle the city’s dead insist the real...
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Assocciated Press Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito stand outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead in 2007 in Perugia, Italy. Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Knox and former Italian boyfriend Sollecito in the slaying of her roommate and ordered a new trial.
Knox faces retrial in slaying case
ROME — It’s not over yet for Amanda Knox. Italy’s top criminal court dealt a stunning setback Tuesday to the 25-year-old college student, overturning her acquittal in the grisly murder of her Br...
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Key dates in the Amanda Knox case
n Nov. 2, 2007: The body of Kercher, 21, is found in her apartment in Perugia, Italy. Investigators say she was killed the night before. n Nov. 6, 2007: Knox is arrested with then-boyfriend Raff...
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Cyprus businesses hurt as banks close
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cypriot businesses were under increasing strain to keep running on Tuesday after financial authorities stretched the country’s bank closure into a second week in a harried attempt...
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Syrian opposition plunges into chaos
BEIRUT — Syria’s opposition plunged into disarray Sunday as its president quit and its military chief refused to recognize the newly elected prime minister of an interim government for rebel-held a...
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Associated Press Pope Francis meets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Saturday. Francis has traveled to Castel Gandolfo to have lunch with his predecessor in a melding of the papacies that the Catholic Church has never encountered.
Benedict embraced as a brother during visit
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — The two men in white embraced and showed one another the deference owed a pope in ways that surely turned Vatican protocol upside down: A reigning pope telling a retired on...
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US aids Honduran police despite fears of death squad’s retaliation
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The U.S. State Department, which spends millions of taxpayer dollars a year on the Honduran National Police, has assured Congress that money only goes to specially vetted an...
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