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Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold
BEIRUT — Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliate fo...
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Somalia: Parents say no to polio vaccine
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic extremist rebels are fighting a campaign in Somalia to administer a polio vaccine, charging that it contains the virus that causes AIDS or could make children sterile, ...
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Egypt’s long-scorned legislature deepens rift after finding power
CAIRO — When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt’s upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had always been for ...
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Campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls ...
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Woman’s jailing in Mexico demonstrates tourist risks
PHOENIX — The weeklong detention of an American woman after Mexican authorities said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat illustrates just one of the perils Americans face while tra...
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Associated Press Anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a placard with a sarcastic caricature on it against Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (right) during a demonstration Friday in Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province.
Balance of power in Syria shifting Assad’s way
BEIRUT — As hopes for a Syrian peace conference fade and the opposition falls into growing disarray, President Bashar Assad has every reason to project confidence. Government forces have moved s...
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OPEC holds oil output target at 30 million barrels
VIENNA — OPEC oil ministers reached quick agreement Friday on keeping output targets steady but deferred solutions on how to deal with surging U.S. shale oil production and internal rivalries denti...
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Associated Press Baghdad municipality workers clean while restaurant staff react after a parked car bomb exploded near a popular restaurant Thursday in the Ur neighborhood in northern Baghdad.
Alarm grows as Iraqi forces fail to stem violence
BAGHDAD — Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned over an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives on Thursday and is reviving fears of a return to widespread ...
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Final Boston bombing suspect heals enough to begin walking
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent,...
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Associated Press Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during a meeting with Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Assad is quoted by a Lebanese TV broadcast as saying the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles has arrived in his country.
Syria’s Assad ‘confident in victory’ for civil war
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is “confident in victory” in his country’s civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any futu...
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