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Defectors officers live in secret camp in Jordan
MAFRAQ, Jordan — In an isolated stretch of Jordanian desert, a heavily guarded, secret compound houses 1,200 senior police and army officers who defected from nearby Syria. The men live in trail...
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Associated Press People walk outside Pizza Pizza restaurant Thursday in Baghdad.
Fast food finds fans in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — Baghdad’s embattled residents can finally get their milkshakes, chili-cheese dogs and buckets of crispy fried chicken. Original recipe or extra spicy, of course. A wave of new American...
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Associated Press Cindy (left) and Craig Corrie (right), the parents of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, sit together with their daughter Sarah during an interview with the Associated Press in Jerusalem on Sunday.
Family of slain US activist awaits verdict
JERUSALEM — Almost a decade after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in a Gaza Strip conflict zone, Rachel Corrie’s parents are preparin...
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Associated Press Syrian rebel fighter Abu Hammam, a former member of the Syrian security forces, poses after returning from fighting against Syrian army forces in Aleppo, at a rebel headquarters in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria, on Sunday. Previously the rebels were ordinary people. They now fight in a civil war against oppression.
Rebels left lives as butchers, barbers
MAREA, Syria — In their previous lives, they were butchers, barbers, construction workers and university students. Now they are rebels fighting a civil war they hope will end Syrian President Ba...
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Afghans: Sources confirm militant leader is dead
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said Sunday its operatives have confirmed that the son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani militant network was killed in an airstrike in P...
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Associated Press Flames rise from the Amuay refinery after an explosion Sunday near Punto Fijo, Venezuela. Venezuelans who live next to the country's biggest oil refinery said they smelled a strong odor of sulfur hours before a gas leak ignited in an explosion on Saturday that killed at least 39 people and injured more than 80.
Survivors smelled gas odor before Venezuela blast
PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela — After nightfall on Friday, as red lights began glowing atop the massive Amuay refinery in western Venezuela, the odor of sulfur made its way through the surrounding neighbor...
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Libya’s interior minister resigns after attacks
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s interim interior minister resigned on Sunday after members of the newly-elected parliament accused his forces of neglect when attackers bulldozed a Sufi shrine and mosque w...
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German minister rejects more time for Greece
BERLIN — Germany’s economy minister has rejected calls for Greece to get more time to implement economic reforms, saying in an interview Sunday that Athens needs to respect the bailout deal reached...
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Associated Press Syrian prisoners stand by the doorway of a makeshift prison run by rebels in a former elementary school Friday in Al-Bab on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria.
Expanding control, rebels run prisons
Al-BAB, Syria — An elementary school hallway in this north Syrian city is now a prison. Behind a padlocked gate sit 10 men, accused by the rebels who have taken over the city of theft, thuggery ...
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Associated Press Paul Yadelie carries her 6-month-old son, Saint Cloue Rodiana, on Friday through a camp for people displaced by a 2010 earthquake, where they will wait out Tropical Storm Isaac in their tent, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Isaac sets sights on Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened as it swirled toward an expected landfall on Haiti’s southern peninsula Friday night, threatening the poor nation with punishing rains but ...
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