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The United States said Thursday it was taking a fresh look at whether to arm Syria's rebels as the Damascus regime pressed an assault on opposition forces in the embattled city of Homs. After having...
Updated : 2013.05.03 09:33
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NEW DELHI (AP) ― The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape...
Updated : 2013.05.02 20:09
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ISLAMABAD (AP) ― A convicted Indian spy who was on Pakistan’s death row died from a head injury after two inmates attacked him with a brick, state TV said Thursday. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Si...
Updated : 2013.05.02 20:09
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Strike marks on the skull (bottom) and a facial reconstruction (top) of “Jane of Jamestown” are seen during a news conference at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington ...
Updated : 2013.05.02 20:08
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Mountain Dew`s controversial ad from YouTube PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew division withdrew an ad on Wednesday after it was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and alluding to violence towards w...
Updated : 2013.05.02 12:02
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Lakhdar Brahimi wants to resign as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria because his efforts to find a political solution to the escalating conflict have failed, U.N. diplomats said Wed...
Updated : 2013.05.02 11:30
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Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of trying to protect him by going into his dorm room and getting rid of a backpack fille...
Updated : 2013.05.02 09:27
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama said he wants more information about chemical weapons use in the Syrian civil war before he decides on escalating U.S. military or diplomatic responses, despi...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:44
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BEIRUT (AP) ― The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Tuesday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad’s regime militarily, strongly suggesting that Syria...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:44
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DHAKA (AFP) ― Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis joined May Day protests Wednesday to demand the execution of textile bosses over the collapse of a factory complex, as rescuers warned the final toll c...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:44
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his pledge to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the impediments that have thwarted him thus far remain. ...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:44
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CARACAS (AP) ― Venezuela’s postelection tensions erupted into a brawl between lawmakers Tuesday night that left at least one opposition member badly bruised and bleeding. Pro-government legislator...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:43
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Amanda Knox may return to Italy to be re-tried for murder, she said Tuesday as she launched a memoir about her case, including frank details about sex, drugs and her harrowing ti...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:25
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COLUMBIA, Missouri (AP) ― John Fenton Wheeler, an Associated Press foreign correspondent who was the last U.S. reporter expelled from Cold War-era Cuba, has died. He was 88. Wheeler died on April 21...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:24
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Jurors in the civil case between Michael Jackson’s mother and concert giant AEG Live got another glimpse of the singer’s private life on Tuesday through the eyes of a paramedic who...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:24
