June 20, 2013
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Israeli seeks interim deal with Palestinians
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should ins...
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Associated Press Syrian rebels prepare to repel a coordinated attack by government forces, in Qusair, Syria, on Sunday. Syrian troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched an assault Sunday on a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, pounding the area with airstrikes and artillery salvos that killed tens of people and forced residents to scramble for cover in basements and makeshift bunkers activists said.
Troops push into rebel-held town
BEIRUT — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a...
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Associated Press Bees gather at the entrance of a hive during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture on Wednesday at Zagreb University. Croatian researches, working on a unique method to find unexploded mines that are littering their country and the rest of the Balkans, are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines.
Bees receive training to find mines
ZAGREB, Croatia — Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field t...
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Denmark’s de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
MALMO, Sweden — Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops.” Juries and television viewers across Europe ...
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Associated Press Syrian official news agency SANA released this photo claiming to show Syrians inspecting a damaged car at the scene of a car bomb which exploded, in Damascus, Syria Saturday. A car bomb killed at least three people and wounded five, according to Syrian state TV.
Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country’s politics, rai...
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Pope Francis leads pep rally at Vatican, meets with Merkel
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis toured St. Peter’s Square to greet tens of thousands of people attending a rally of prayer, music and speeches Saturday, and he embraced the brother of a Pakistani polit...
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Assocaited Press Abdel-Nour, the father of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, speaks on the phone to a live television show Thursday about his daughter from his home in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor, Egypt.
Blasphemy cases reflect struggle
CAIRO — The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beard...
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Associated Press An oil well undergoes testing in 2010 in the Lake Albertine region of western Uganda. Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees.
Politics, bribery charges swirl around Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda — Even before the first drops flow, Uganda’s oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees, ...
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Woman describes Berlusconi’s parties
MILAN — Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent...
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Associated Press A National Guard soldier frisks a man Tuesday outside his car at a checkpoint that is part of the "Secure Homeland" initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela. Since Monday, this scene is playing out day and night at dozens of military checkpoints set up here in the socialist government's latest attempt to control the oil-rich country's pandemic of violence.
Venezuela’s military enters high-crime slums
PETARE, Venezuela — Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas. Flashlights in his face, the dri...
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