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20 years on, Oslo Accords promise rings hollow

ABU DIS, West Bank – In 1993, the words rang hopeful and historic. Israel and the PLO agreed “it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict,” live in peaceful co-existenc...

Voyager 1 leaves the solar system

Team on Earth awaits discoveries

Report: Data on Americans routinely shared with Israel

The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without removing information about Americans, The Guardian reported, citing a top-secret document it said was ...

Arctic sea ice nears annual summer minimum

Sea ice in the Arctic will reach its annual minimum “any day now,” says Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which tracks Arctic ice. Although not near...

Suicide bombs hit Egypt military in Sinai, kill nine

EL-ARISH, Egypt – In near-simultaneous attacks, a pair of suicide bombers rammed their explosives-laden cars into military targets in Egypt’s volatile Sinai on Wednesday, killing at least ni...

Iraq tries novel ways to curb rising violence

BAGHDAD – Iraqi authorities are resorting to desperate measures to quell rising violence, ordering huge numbers of cars off the roads, bulldozing soccer fields and even building a medieval-s...

White House: Russian prestige on the line in Syria

WASHINGTON – The White House tried Wednesday to pin the success or failure of a diplomatic option to secure Syria’s chemical weapons on Russia rather than the United States as Secretary of S...

Health law smoking penalties could hit poor hardest

WASHINGTON – Smokers – and chewers – in some states may have to pay as much as 50 percent more in premiums than nonsmokers if they sign up for insurance through state health exchanges that o...

Diplomats working on plan to secure Syrian weapons

UNITED NATIONS – Key international players were moving on two diplomatic fronts Wednesday to try to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control, and a fresh effort appeared to b...

World/Nation Briefs

Brazil to send officials to talk to Snowden BRASILIA, Brazil – The foreign relations and defense commission of Brazil’s lower house has authorized an official trip by legislators ...

Nation pauses to remember Sept. 11 dead

NEW YORK – Life in lower Manhattan resembled any ordinary day on Wednesday as workers rushed to their jobs in the muggy heat, but time stood still at the World Trade Center site while famili...

Syrian Americans watch, listen, hope

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Nawal Gergi kept thinking one thing as President Obama explained his position on Syria Tuesday: Any military action puts her family and friends at risk. Gergi, wh...
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