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Associated Press Anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a placard with a sarcastic caricature on it against Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (right) during a demonstration Friday in Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province.
Balance of power in Syria shifting Assad’s way
BEIRUT — As hopes for a Syrian peace conference fade and the opposition falls into growing disarray, President Bashar Assad has every reason to project confidence. Government forces have moved s...
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Associated Press Baghdad municipality workers clean while restaurant staff react after a parked car bomb exploded near a popular restaurant Thursday in the Ur neighborhood in northern Baghdad.
Alarm grows as Iraqi forces fail to stem violence
BAGHDAD — Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned over an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives on Thursday and is reviving fears of a return to widespread ...
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Associated Press Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during a meeting with Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Assad is quoted by a Lebanese TV broadcast as saying the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles has arrived in his country.
Syria’s Assad ‘confident in victory’ for civil war
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is “confident in victory” in his country’s civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any futu...
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Final Boston bombing suspect heals enough to begin walking
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent,...
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Associated Press An international conference on Syria called "Political Solution- Regional Stability" was held Wednesday at an hotel in Tehran, Iran. Iran has expressed its support for an international conference to end the bloodshed in Syria. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran "supports Geneva talks and U.N. efforts."
Syria: Assad to remain president
BEIRUT — Syria’s foreign minister laid out a hard line Wednesday, saying Bashar Assad will remain president at least until elections in 2014 and might seek another term, conditions that will make i...
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Honduras gangs declare truce
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Honduras’ two biggest and most dangerous street gangs declared a truce Tuesday, offering to give the government peace in exchange for rehabilitation and jobs. A spokes...
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Britain: EU ends embargo on arms for Syrian rebels
BRUSSELS — The European Union said its member states within days will be able to send weapons to help Syria’s outgunned rebels, seeking to pressure President Bashar Assad’s regime ahead of planned ...
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Video shakes up Toronto’s ranks
TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s press advisers are the latest to leave their jobs as questions swirl about a video that purportedly shows the mayor smoking crack cocaine. The mayor of Canada’...
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Murder suspect arrested in 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — A suspect in last week’s savage killing of a British soldier on a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010 while apparently preparing to train and fight with al-Qaida-linked Som...
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Associated Press An electric car parks during a demonstration of the California-based company Better Place in 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Better Place announced Sunday that it is shutting down, less than six years after unveiling an ambitious plan that promised to revolutionize the auto industry by reducing the world's dependency on oil.
Trailblazing Israeli company to close
JERUSALEM — It was an audacious idea that came to symbolize Israel’s self-described status as “Start-Up Nation,” a company that believed it could replace most gasoline-powered cars with electric ve...
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