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US general's visit to Iraq includes talks on Syria
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:47AM August 22, 2012 CommentBAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. Embassy says the top U.S. general's talks with Iraq's prime minister included discussions about Syria, underscoring concerns that the civil war there risks destabilizing Iraq's own fragile security.
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Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:21AM August 22, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war.
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Sean Penn's charity to demolish Haiti's Palace
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:04PM August 21, 2012 CommentPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The nonprofit aid group founded by Hollywood star Sean Penn in the aftermath of Haiti's deadly 2010 earthquake will oversee demolition of the wrecked National Palace, the Haitian government said Tuesday.
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Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:40PM August 21, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war.
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Afghan rockets damage US general's plane
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:54PM August 21, 2012 CommentKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An insurgent rocket attack damaged the plane of the top U.S. general as it sat parked at a coalition base in Afghanistan on Tuesday, dealing another blow to the image of progress in building a stable country as foreign forces work to wind down the 10-year-old war.
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3 men linked to Jordan's Paralympic squad arrested
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:14PM August 21, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Three men linked to Jordan's Paralympic team were arrested and charged in Northern Ireland following allegations of sexual assault, British media reported Tuesday. It was not clear if the men were athletes or supporting members of Jordan's team.
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IAEA tries again to access suspect Iran nuke site
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:59PM August 21, 2012 CommentVIENNA (AP) — Iran is in the final stages of sanitizing a military site it is suspected of using for secret nuclear weapons-related experiments, two senior diplomats said Tuesday, as the U.N. atomic agency intensified efforts to gain access to the area before the alleged clean-up succeeds in erasing any traces of such work.
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Assad's regime steps up use of air power
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:01PM August 21, 2012 CommentBEIRUT (AP) — Its forces stretched thin on multiple fronts, President Bashar Assad's regime has significantly increased its use of air power against Syrian rebels in recent weeks, causing a spike in civilian casualties.
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A US ally, Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi dies
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:56PM August 21, 2012 CommentADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's long-time ruler and a major U.S. counter-terrorism ally who is credited with economic gains but blamed for human rights abuses, died of an undisclosed illness after not being seen in his East African country for weeks, Ethiopian authorities said Tuesday. He was 57.
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Israel says Egypt violating peace treaty in Sinai
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:43PM August 21, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel objected Tuesday to a move by Egypt's new leaders to deploy tanks in a volatile border area, calling the action a violation of the landmark 1979 peace accord between the two nations.
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Balkans heat wave fuels forest fires in Bosnia
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:12PM August 21, 2012 CommentBANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday declared a state of emergency around a town in Bosnia's northeast and a tourist area was evacuated in the country's south as a heat wave fuelled wildfires across the Balkans and left people suffering heat exhaustion.
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Syrian minister warns US against intervention
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:13PM August 21, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — President Barack Obama's warning over chemical weapons in Syria indicates the West is looking for a pretext for military intervention, a senior Syrian government official said Tuesday following talks in Moscow.
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Turkmenistan formally ends 1-party system
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:08PM August 21, 2012 CommentASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan has formally ended its one-party system with the creation of a business-oriented political party. But the new group's arrival is unlikely to substantively lead to democratization in the authoritarian state.
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Court ruling lets Romania president return to post
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:04PM August 21, 2012 CommentBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's constitutional court ruled Tuesday that a referendum on whether to oust the country's president had failed because the minimum voter threshold was not reached, clearing the way for Traian Basescu to return to his post. But comments from a top government official calling Basescu "an illegitimate president" suggested that the power struggles in the eastern European country were by no means over.
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Website of court that sentenced Pussy Riot hacked
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:54PM August 21, 2012 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — Russian hackers on Tuesday attacked the website of the Moscow court where three members of the Pussy Riot punk band were tried and sentenced to two years in prison for an irreverent protest.
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Israeli archaeologist digs into Nazi death camp
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:39PM August 21, 2012 CommentKIRYAT MALACHI, Israel (AP) — When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family's unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig.
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IMF chief in Egypt for talks over $3.2 billion aid
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:38PM August 21, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is in Egypt to try to revive stalled talks over a $3.2 billion aid package for its battered economy.
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Egypt: Contaminated water causes illness, protests
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:14PM August 21, 2012 CommentCAIRO (AP) — Villagers briefly locked the Egyptian health minister and a provincial governor inside a hospital room Tuesday after allegedly contaminated water caused hundreds of residents to fall ill, officials said.
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SA defense minister says sorry for shot miners
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:04PM August 21, 2012 CommentMARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's defense minister apologized Tuesday to angry miners who held up plastic packets of bullet casings, the first government official to beg forgiveness for the police shootings that killed 34 striking miners, wounded another 78 and shocked the nation. It was the most deadly display of state violence since apartheid ended in 1994.
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Is Ethiopia's new leader in place for long?
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:38PM August 21, 2012 CommentADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The death of Ethiopia's prime minister pushed his relatively unknown successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, into the spotlight on Tuesday, and he may be merely a placeholder or might hang on to become Ethiopia's next long-time leader.
