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Associated Press German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle signs the Arms Trade Treaty on Monday at United Nations headquarters. More than 60 countries signed the landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Monday. The United States announced it will sign soon, giving a strong kickoff to the first major international campaign to stem the illicit trade in weapons that fuel conflicts and extremists.
Over 60 countries sign treaty
UNITED NATIONS — More than 60 countries signed the landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Monday and the United States announced it will sign soon, giving a strong kic...
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Associated Press A Palestinian child rides a bicycle near the Roman basilica and forum April 6 in the village of Sebastia near the West Bank city of Nablus. The ancient town of Sebastia is one of the greatest archaeological sites of the Holy Land, attracting tourists and pilgrims over the centuries with its overlapping layers of history dating back 3,000 years, but visitors who come to the site today will find it in a state of neglect.
Archaeological treasure hurt by politics
SEBASTIA, West Bank — The ancient town of Sebastia is one of the major archaeological sites of the Holy Land, with its overlapping layers of history dating back nearly 3,000 years. But today the hi...
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Hezbollah, Syrian rebels fight in worst clash in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Syrian rebels and Hezbollah guerrillas battled Sunday in their worst clashes yet inside Lebanon, a new sign that the civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilizing its fragile neighbor. ...
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Associated Press Health workers from Tata Memorial Hospital visits Usha Devi (right), who was suffering from cervical cancer, at her home in a slum May 21 in Mumbai, India. A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women.
Study finds vinegar test saves lives
MUMBAI, India — A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of wo...
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Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold
BEIRUT — Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliate fo...
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Somalia: Parents say no to polio vaccine
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic extremist rebels are fighting a campaign in Somalia to administer a polio vaccine, charging that it contains the virus that causes AIDS or could make children sterile, ...
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Egypt’s long-scorned legislature deepens rift after finding power
CAIRO — When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt’s upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had always been for ...
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Campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls ...
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OPEC holds oil output target at 30 million barrels
VIENNA — OPEC oil ministers reached quick agreement Friday on keeping output targets steady but deferred solutions on how to deal with surging U.S. shale oil production and internal rivalries denti...
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Woman’s jailing in Mexico demonstrates tourist risks
PHOENIX — The weeklong detention of an American woman after Mexican authorities said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat illustrates just one of the perils Americans face while tra...
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