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Associated Press A Syrian girl chants slogans during a demonstration in Idlib, north Syria. Syria's main opposition group said nearly 800 people have been killed in violence across the country in the past week which saw some of the bloodiest violence in the 16-month uprising against President Bashar Assad.
Opposition says 800 killed in past week
BEIRUT — Syria’s main opposition group said nearly 800 people have been killed in violence across the country in the past week which saw some of the bloodiest violence in the 16-month uprising agai...
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Associated Press Secretary of State George Shultz greets Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir upon arrival in Washington in 1988. Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96 years old. Israeli media said he died at a nursing home in Herzliya Saturday, June 30, 2012, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement mourning Shamir's death.
Former Israeli PM Shamir remembered for land stance
JERUSALEM — Yitzhak Shamir was a fighter for the Jews long before Israel’s creation, an underground leader who led militias against the Arabs and British. He made no apologies and no compromises...
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World criminal court facing new challenges
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ten years ago the treaty that created the International Criminal Court came into force, creating the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal. But as the anniversary ...
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Iran feels pinch of new EU oil sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran — As new European Union sanctions targeting Iran’s vital oil industry took effect Sunday, Tehran acknowledged the measures aimed at reining in its disputed nuclear program were taking ...
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North Korean poet writes of hunger, desperation
LONDON — He says he was one of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s favorite propaganda artists, singing the praises of the Dear Leader in dozens of poems. But these days Jang Jin-sung says h...
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Egypt’s new president begins amid struggle
CAIRO — Islamist Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first freely elected president on Saturday, launching his four-year term with a potentially dangerous quest to wrest back from the military the full a...
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Inmates at Gitmo could relocate
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering a new gambit to restart peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan that would send several Taliban detainees from the military prison at Guanta...
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European leaders exceed expectations
BRUSSELS — Europe’s leaders finally rose to the challenge Friday, backing bold ideas to help weak countries and frail banks ravaged by a debt crisis that has crippled economic growth and threatened...
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Associated Press Thick smoke rises over the Damascus skyline after a powerful explosion rocked the Syrian capital Thursday near a busy market and the country's highest court.
Turkey fortifies Syrian border; Damascus hit
BEIRUT — Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and other weapons along its border with Syria on Thursday, a military buildup that came as world powers showed new urgency to resolve ...
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Associated Press Hava Hershkovitz (right), a Holocaust survivor and winner of the first Miss Holocaust Survivor pageant, is congratulated Thursday by another participant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Fourteen women who lived through the horrors of World War II paraded on stage Thursday night in an unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being Israel's first "Miss Holocaust Survivor."
‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ crowned
HAIFA, Israel — Grinning and waving, 14 women who survived the horrors of World War II paraded Thursday in an unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being crowned Israel’s first “Miss Holocaust Su...
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