May 19, 2013
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Associated Press Holocaust survivors and their relatives hold flowers during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday. Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered by German Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust in World War II.
Israel honors Nazi Holocaust victims
JERUSALEM — Among the crowds marking Israel’s annual Holocaust remembrance day at the Yad Vashem memorial Monday was a retired American Air Force colonel from San Francisco who came to honor a fami...
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Paper: Police detain reporters over story
LAGOS, Nigeria — Two journalists were detained Monday by police after their newspaper published a story about supposed plans by the nation’s presidency to disrupt opposition parties and potentially...
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30 Pakistani soldiers killed in northwest valley
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Four days of fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan left 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants dead as the army attempted to wrestle control of a remote, mountainous valley fr...
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Associated Press South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence at sunset near the border village of Panmunjom Sunday in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang.
S. Korea: North may test missile
SEOUL, South Korea — A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon ...
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Associated Press A North Korean worker assembles cables at the GS Bucheon factory Sept. 12, 2012 in Kaesong, North Korea.
Made in Korea
There is a North Korean factory with no portraits of the country’s late leaders on the walls, no North Korean flags, no hand-painted posters screaming party slogans. Everything from the tissues to ...
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Syrian oil industry breaking down as rebels make gains
BEIRUT — Syria’s vital oil industry is breaking down as rebels capture many of the country’s oil fields, with wells aflame and looters scooping up crude, depriving the government of much needed cas...
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Associated Press An Afghan policeman stands guard on the roof of a house Saturday in the outskirts of Kabul. NATO says a blast in Afghanistan has killed four coalition service members and two civilians working with the alliance.
Americans, doctor killed in attacks
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor Saturday in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day fo...
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Warsaw ghetto survivor in Israel recalls uprising
JERUSALEM — Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from the...
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Mandela released from hospital
JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday following treatment for pneumonia, the presidency said in news that cheered South Africans who had waited t...
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Associated Press South Korean Army K-55 self-propelled howitzers are deployed during their military exercise in the border city between two Koreas, Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea. After a series of escalating threats, North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, South Korea's defense minister said Thursday. But he emphasized that the missile was not capable of reaching the United States and that there are no signs that the North is preparing for a full-scale conflict.
Dempsey: provocations fit long pattern
STUTTGART, Germany — North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric and threats, while worrisome, appear to fit a decadeslong pattern of provocation followed by uneasy peace, the top U.S. military officer said F...
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