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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,...
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 ...
May 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rockets in Beirut signal possible Syrian struggle spillover
BEIRUT — Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group’s leader pledged to lift President ...
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Pope urges Mafiosi to stop exploitation of others
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis paid tribute to a courageous priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia as a martyr and urged mobsters on Sunday to abandon their evil ways, particularly the exploitation of ...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama talks about national security Thursday at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. The president left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself vast power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.
Obama’s drone speech opens doors
ISLAMABAD — President Barack Obama’s decision to impose more restrictive rules governing U.S. drone strikes and his prediction that they will be used less could pave the way for better relations wi...
May 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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