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Report: North Korea ships arms, violating United Nations sanctions
UNITED NATIONS — North Korea continues to violate U.N. sanctions by attempting to ship arms to Syria and Myanmar and illegally importing luxury goods, according to a long-awaited report by a U.N. e...
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Afghanistan drawdown includes many trainers
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — For today’s drill, an instructor explains, the Taliban will be played by U.S. Marines, and the “village” will be just down from the driving practice loop. An Afgh...
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Old guard leads, ruling party yields
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s old guard prepared to sail back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the president of the long-ruling party said that all exit polls “irreversibly” favored its preside...
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NATO says 3 service members killed
KABUL, Afghanistan — A man in an Afghan police uniform on Sunday shot and killed three foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement. It did not any other de...
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Associated Press A Syrian girl chants slogans during a demonstration in Idlib, north Syria. Syria's main opposition group said nearly 800 people have been killed in violence across the country in the past week which saw some of the bloodiest violence in the 16-month uprising against President Bashar Assad.
Opposition says 800 killed in past week
BEIRUT — Syria’s main opposition group said nearly 800 people have been killed in violence across the country in the past week which saw some of the bloodiest violence in the 16-month uprising agai...
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Associated Press Secretary of State George Shultz greets Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir upon arrival in Washington in 1988. Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96 years old. Israeli media said he died at a nursing home in Herzliya Saturday, June 30, 2012, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement mourning Shamir's death.
Former Israeli PM Shamir remembered for land stance
JERUSALEM — Yitzhak Shamir was a fighter for the Jews long before Israel’s creation, an underground leader who led militias against the Arabs and British. He made no apologies and no compromises...
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World criminal court facing new challenges
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ten years ago the treaty that created the International Criminal Court came into force, creating the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal. But as the anniversary ...
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Iran feels pinch of new EU oil sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran — As new European Union sanctions targeting Iran’s vital oil industry took effect Sunday, Tehran acknowledged the measures aimed at reining in its disputed nuclear program were taking ...
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North Korean poet writes of hunger, desperation
LONDON — He says he was one of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s favorite propaganda artists, singing the praises of the Dear Leader in dozens of poems. But these days Jang Jin-sung says h...
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Egypt’s new president begins amid struggle
CAIRO — Islamist Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first freely elected president on Saturday, launching his four-year term with a potentially dangerous quest to wrest back from the military the full a...
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