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Apes plan trips, research shows

WASHINGTON – It’s the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whoopi...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Twitter files documents for initial stock offering NEW YORK – Twitter is going public. The short messaging service aptly tweeted Thursday that it has filed confidential documents ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Cubans seek return of agents held by U.S. HAVANA – Cubans tied yellow ribbons to homes, trees and lampposts across the capital Thursday, in an organized mass campaign to pres...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kerry quickly rejects Syria’s offer on arms

GENEVA – Striking a tough tone, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened swiftly convened talks with Russia on Syria’s chemical weapons Thursday by bluntly rejecting a Syrian pledge to begi...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. women regain jobs lost in recession

WASHINGTON – U.S. women have recovered all the jobs they lost to the Great Recession. The same can’t be said for men, who remain 2.1 million jobs short. The biggest factor is tha...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Twitter says it has filed IPO documents

NEW YORK (AP) – Twitter is going public. The short messaging service says it has filed confidential documents for an initial public offering of stock. San Francisco-based Twitter ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Voyager 1 leaves the solar system

Team on Earth awaits discoveries

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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 ...

DATE: Sep 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Sep 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Sep 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Sep 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World