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Associated Press People visit the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display July 5 as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington.
AIDS on decline, millions continue waiting for drugs
LONDON — When the AIDS epidemic erupted nearly three decades ago, analysts feared it would be impossible to stop the disease’s spread or to provide enough of the costly drugs needed to treat it. To...
Jul 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv speaks in 2001 in Jerusalem. Elyashiv, revered by Jews worldwide as the top rabbinic authority of this generation for his scholarship and rulings on complex elements of Jewish law, has died. He was 102.
Elyashiv was revered by Jews worldwide
JERUSALEM — Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, revered by Jews worldwide as the top rabbinic authority of this generation for his scholarship and rulings on complex elements of Jewish law, died Wednesday...
Jul 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Jay Jones and other performers rehearse for the opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics on Monday in London. Organizers said director Danny Boyle is trimming parts of the ceremony to make sure the show finishes on time.
London shortens Olympic ceremony to end on time
LONDON — Lights, camera, action ... Cut! Not the words director Danny Boyle was hoping to shout just days before the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. But the Oscar-winning director of...
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Pakistan, US to resume talks on drone strikes
WASHINGTON — The United States and Pakistan are resuming high-level counterterrorism talks suspended over a deadly border incident last year, with Pakistan’s spy chief set to visit Washington late ...
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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 ...
Jul 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Jul 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Jul 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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