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Associated Press Free Syrian Army soldiers clash with Syrian government forces in Damascus, Syria, in this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News. Syrian troops and rebels clashed inside Damascus for a second day Monday, causing plumes of black smoke to drift over the city's skyline in some of the worst violence in the tightly controlled capital since the country's crisis began 16 months ago.
Syrian rebels push war into capital Damascus
BEIRUT — Syrian rebels fired grenades at tanks and troops while regime armor shelled Damascus neighborhoods Monday, sending terrified families fleeing the most sustained and widespread fighting in ...
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US Navy ship fires on boat off coast of Dubai, killing 1
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. Navy gunners aboard a refueling ship opened fire on a small boat racing toward them in broad daylight Monday near the Gulf city of Dubai, killing one person and i...
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Mideast peace slips to second billing for US
JERUSALEM — Mideast peace, America’s defining issue for decades of dealings with Israel and its Arab neighbors, was just a postscript Monday as Hillary Rodham Clinton made perhaps her final visit t...
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2 Americans kidnapped in Egypt’s Sinai are freed
EL-ARISH, Egypt — Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide who were abducted by a Bedouin in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last week were released unharmed on Monday after negotiations with securit...
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Associated Press Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration Friday in Damascus, Syria, in this citizen journalism image. On Sunday, Syria denied U.N. claims that government forces used heavy weapons during a military operation that left scores dead.
Red Cross declares conflict in Syria to be all-out civil war
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s 16-month bloodbath crossed an important symbolic threshold Sunday as the international Red Cross formally declared the conflict a civil war, a status with implications for...
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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 27, 2010 file photo, Israeli earth-moving equipment works in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Netafim, near the West Bank village of Salfit. The Israeli government has quietly agreed to grant subsidies to build more than 500 new homes in the West Bank, backtracking from a promise earlier this year to deny these incentives to the settlements, the AP has learned. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh, File)
Israel to grant settlement subsidy
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has quietly agreed to grant subsidies to build more than 500 new homes in the West Bank, backtracking from a promise earlier this year to deny these incentives to...
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Well-known Afghan commander among 23 dead in blast
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who w...
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Associated Press A sniper with Royal Air Force Regiment Sniper sights through his scope from inside an RAF Puma helicopter at RAF Northolt ahead of carrying out air security duties for Op Olympic on Friday in London. Royal Air Force Puma Helicopters and Typhoon fighter jets along with Royal Navy Sea King helicopters are arriving at RAF Northolt ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games to carry out air security. Aircraft that fail to comply with procedures within a restricted airspace zone around Olympic venues could be subject to "lethal force" from the military, it was revealed Friday.
Security boss sorry for spoiled contract
LONDON — The boss of British security group G4S said Saturday he was sorry that his company had bungled the contract to help protect the 2012 Olympic Games, a humbling televised apology that follow...
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Associated Press A statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, unveiled Saturday in Gdansk, Poland, shows the late leaders who are highly revered in Poland for their role in helping to topple communism.
Poles honor John Paul, Reagan with statue
GDANSK, Poland — Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helpi...
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Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the presidential palace Saturday in Cairo. Clinton hoped to use her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to steer him toward opening a dialogue with the military that could end the country's political crisis.
Clinton to Egypt’s Morsi: Find way out of crisis
CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt’s new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of prese...
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