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Associated Press A Syrian Army tank travels the streets of the Jobar district of Damascus, Syria, on Friday. On the streets of Damascus, the two-year old conflict dragged on Friday, with government troops pushing into two northern neighborhoods, triggering heavy fighting with rebels as they tried to advance under air and artillery support, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting between rebels and soldiers backed by pro-government militiamen was concentrated in the Jobar and Barzeh areas.
Syrian rebels call on world for action
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition groups called Friday for international action after the Obama administration said U.S. intelligence indicates President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons. T...
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Growing demand from Chinese drains Europe baby food supply
BERLIN — Yong-Hee Kim still can’t believe that in a prosperous country like Germany, powdered baby formula would ever be rationed and that she would have to scour shops in the German capital to fin...
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War in Israel targets Orthodox Jews
JERUSALEM — A cultural war has erupted between Israel’s rising political star and his ultra-Orthodox rivals. Newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the long-standing ...
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Iraq: 51 dead in clashes, bombing as tensions rise
BAGHDAD — Clashes erupted Wednesday between the Iraqi army and armed Sunni tribesmen who sealed off two central Iraqi towns, leaving 38 dead, just a day after a bloody incident involving soldiers a...
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Associated Press A woman whose relatives were killed in Saturday's earthquake cries while sitting on a pile of rubble in Lingguan township in Baoxing county of southwest China's Sichuan province on Sunday. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city, along the same fault line where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters.
China learned lessons from years ago
LUSHAN, China — The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China’s full range of disaster response is on display: T...
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Taliban capture 11 after emergency helicopter landing in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Turkish transport helicopter carrying at least 11 civilians was forced to make an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area in eastern Afghanistan, and the insurgents to...
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Syria shores up hold on Damascus
BEIRUT — After watching much of Syria’s territory slip into rebel hands, President Bashar Assad’s regime is focusing on the basics: shoring up its hold on Damascus and the strip of land connecting ...
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Canadian authorities suspect terror plot
TORONTO — Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, police said Monday. The case bolstered a...
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Ex-bishop’s widow wants optional priestly celibacy
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — She uses a wheelchair and carries the weight of her 87 years, but Clelia Luro feels powerful enough to make the Roman Catholic Church pay attention to her campaign to end ...
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Rights group: Myanmar unrest being called ‘ethnic cleansing’
BANGKOK — A leading international rights group on Monday accused authorities in Myanmar, including Buddhist monks, of fomenting an organized campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Rohin...
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