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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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Financial crisis drives up Greek suicide rate

Associated Press ATHENS, Greece – Suicides increased by 45 percent during the first four years of Greece’s financial crisis, a mental health aid group said Tuesday, warning there ...

DATE: Sep 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ohioan who made confessional DUI video faces court

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio driver who made an online video confessing to causing a fatal wrong-way crash after drinking heavily must wait at least a day to enter hi...

DATE: Sep 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court convicts four men in Indian’s rape, murder

NEW DELHI – An Indian court convicted four men Tuesday in the deadly gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a brutal crime that galvanized public anger about the widespread – ...

DATE: Sep 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Income inequality gap widens in America WASHINGTON – The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s. The ...

DATE: Sep 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World