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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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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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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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NBC rating for ceremony sets new record
NEW YORK — The Olympics opening ceremony was seen in the U.S. by 40.7 million people, making it the most-watched opening ceremony for a summer or winter Olympics. The Nielsen company said Saturd...
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Associated Press The Olympic cauldron burns following the opening ceremonies to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on Saturday.
Invisible flame is burning issue of London games
LONDON — The Olympic flame is nowhere to be seen. The enduring image of the Summer and Winter Games, lit Friday night at the climax of the opening ceremony, is out of sight from the throngs of f...
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Associated Press Queen Elizabeth II watches the morning session of swimming competitions at the Aquatics Centre in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics on Saturday.
Queen tours Olympic Park after debut as Bond Girl
LONDON — Fresh from her star turn as the latest Bond Girl, Queen Elizabeth II returned to Olympic Park for an encore Saturday, while the usually biting British press gave a resounding review: We ar...
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Egypt’s president faces backlash from allies
CAIRO — An alliance of pro-democracy advocates on Saturday criticized Egypt’s new Islamist president for unilaterally choosing a prime minister with no track record, while leading without transpare...
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Officials: Ebola breaks out in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda — The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disea...
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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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