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Rockets in Beirut signal possible Syrian struggle spillover
BEIRUT — Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group’s leader pledged to lift President ...
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Pope urges Mafiosi to stop exploitation of others
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis paid tribute to a courageous priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia as a martyr and urged mobsters on Sunday to abandon their evil ways, particularly the exploitation of ...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama talks about national security Thursday at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. The president left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself vast power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.
Obama’s drone speech opens doors
ISLAMABAD — President Barack Obama’s decision to impose more restrictive rules governing U.S. drone strikes and his prediction that they will be used less could pave the way for better relations wi...
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Associated Press Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, attends an IAEA board of governors meeting March 6 at the International Center in Vienna. The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence information, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community.
UN agency’s Iran probe driven by US-led intel
VIENNA — The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency’...
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Associated Press Qatari foreign minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani talks Thursday during an Arab League committee emergency meeting on Syria at the league's headquarters in Cairo ahead of an international peace conference to end the country's civil war.
Syrian regime OKs peace talks amid skepticism
BEIRUT — Syria’s government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Moscow. While this development might seem at first glance to be a step toward ending the civi...
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Syria’s fighting uproots Mideast
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s fighting has uprooted more than half of the country’s 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is be...
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Associated Press Police officers guard a flat as it is being searched Thursday at Greenwich, southeast London. A member of the armed forces was attacked and killed by two men on Wednesday at nearby Woolwich.
Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack
LONDON — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations wi...
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Military calls UK attack victim a model soldier
LONDON — The soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack in London was a popular 25-year-old ceremonial military drummer and machine gunner, a father and a passionate fan of the Manch...
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Man jailed in Pakistan killed by drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, offici...
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Associated Press Police and forensic officers investigate Wednesday near the scene of an attack that left one man confirmed dead and two people wounded near Woolwich barracks in London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault in the afternoon in Woolwich.
Terror attack leaves 1 dead
LONDON — In a brutal daylight attack that raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before polic...
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