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Thai protesters occupy government buildings, cut power

BANGKOK – Tens of thousands of protesters in Thailand’s capital overran several buildings and cut power to the Finance Ministry on Monday in a stepped-up campaign to topple the government of...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court weighs new health law dispute

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s health-care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies’ religious objections to the law’s birth-control mandate. Amid the ...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Israel resumes campaign against Iran

JERUSALEM – Having lost its battle to stop the international deal reached this week on Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli officials are already picking up the pieces and planning a fight to sha...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Prospects brighten for small-scale budget deal

WASHINGTON – Despite the poisonous environment in Congress, chances are improving for a small-scale budget deal next month that would ease automatic spending decreases that threaten to cut m...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Easing of Iran sanctions could start in December

BRUSSELS – European Union sanctions against Iran could be eased as soon as December, officials said Monday, after a potentially history-shaping deal that gives Tehran six months to increase...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Newtown report fails to determine shooting motive

HARTFORD, Conn. – Why Adam Lanza went on his murderous shooting rampage at a Newtown elementary school is a mystery and may never be known, prosecutors said Monday in a report that closed o...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World powers announce Syrian peace talk plans

BEIRUT – Within 24 hours of an interim deal aimed at reining in Iran’s nuclear program, world powers raised hopes Monday for the first face-to-face talks to end the Syrian civil war as the U...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Anatomy of Iranian nuclear deal

Pact supporters call it win-win

DATE: Nov 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Secrecy shrouds probe into Sandy Hook shooting HARTFORD, Conn. – A prosecutor is planning to release a report Monday on the investigation into the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementar...

DATE: Nov 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU climate chief says UN talks hinge on 2015 deal

WARSAW, Poland – After another U.N. climate conference gave only modest results, European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says the process needs to provide a “substantial answer” to gl...

DATE: Nov 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iran nuclear deal fuels anger, jitters in Mideast

JERUSALEM – Israel’s prime minister harshly condemned the international community’s nuclear deal with Iran on Sunday while Saudi Arabia remained conspicuously quiet, reflecting the jitters f...

DATE: Nov 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More than 160 killed as Syrian rebels try to siege

BEIRUT – Heavy clashes between Syrian troops and rebels trying to break a government siege in the suburbs of Damascus have killed at least 160 fighters over two days, activists said Sunday. ...

DATE: Nov 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World