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Manning offers apology for leaks

Facing up to 90 years in prison, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning apologized Wednesday for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks while he was an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010. ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

All 18 on India submarine feared dead

NEW DELHI – All 18 sailors aboard an Indian submarine hit by twin explosions and an intense fire are feared dead, a naval official said. The submarine had also been damaged in a deadly explo...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Eurozone’s longest-ever recession comes to an end

MADRID – Minube, a travel startup on the outskirts of Madrid, is doing something that many Spanish companies haven’t thought about for years: It’s hiring. The company, which sells...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Experts: Fort Hood victims shot while lying down

FORT HOOD, Texas – At least four people killed during a gunman’s rampage at Fort Hood in 2009 were likely shot while lying on the floor inside a building at the Texas military base, experts ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kids missing from Obama vacation – so far at least

EDGARTOWN, Mass. – President Barack Obama’s fourth summer vacation on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard is humming along with the usual golf games and basketball. But the family...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Israel, Palestinians begin new peace talks JERUSALEM – With tensions high and expectations low, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators kicked off their first substantive round of ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Louisiana hostage-taker wrote about anger over breakup

ST. JOSEPH, La. – The gunman in a fatal hostage standoff wrote that he was angry at his ex-girlfriend’s family and believed they were responsible for a device in his head, the sheriff said. ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt police storm protesters’ camps

CAIRO – Riot police backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters Wednesday swept away two encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, setting off running street b...

DATE: Aug 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt: Pro-Morsi vigil takes on permanent look

CAIRO – Instead of rushing for the exits, Islamist supporters of Egypt’s ousted president are replacing tents with wooden huts in their sprawling Cairo encampment. Barbershops have sprung up...

DATE: Aug 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Shining Path bruised, but far from defeated, analysts say

LIMA, Peru – The ambush killing of what Peruvian authorities say is almost certainly half the Shining Path’s four-man leadership comes amid a territorial expansion by the cocaine-fueled insu...

DATE: Aug 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. willing to engage North Korea on detained American

WASHINGTON – The U.S. on Tuesday signaled a willingness to engage North Korea to secure the release of an American sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the authoritarian country. ...

DATE: Aug 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuclear missile force fails key security test

WASHINGTON – An Air Force unit that operates one-third of the nation’s land-based nuclear missiles has failed a safety and security inspection, marking the second major setback this year for...

DATE: Aug 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World