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U.S. drone program in Pakistan scaled back ISLAMABAD – The United States has drastically scaled back the number of drone attacks against militants in Pakistan and limited strikes ...

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

Families still separated 60 years after Korean War

GYEONGSAN, South Korea – Hong Jong Soon gazes out her window for hours each day, past a small garden where sesame and red peppers grow, past an iron gate and low wall, hoping to witness the ...

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

Fears over Zimmerman verdict riots prove overblown

The predictions were dire: Black people would burn and loot America’s cities if George Zimmerman was found not guilty. White people everywhere would be attacked in revenge for the killing of...

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

Nation/World Briefs

More calling on Weiner to drop out of mayor’s race NEW YORK – Anthony Weiner pressed ahead with his bid for mayor Wednesday despite growing calls for him to drop out over a n...

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

Egypt cracks down on border

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Egypt’s new government has imposed the toughest border restrictions on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in years, sealing smuggling tunnels, blocking most passenger traffic a...

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

House panel approves cutting postal deliveries

WASHINGTON - Door-to-door mail delivery is about as American as apple pie. With the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, that tradition could be virtually phased out b...

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

House backs NSA data gathering

Measure to stop practice narrowly rejected 217-205

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

Royal baby named George Alexander Louis

LONDON – His Royal Highness has a name. Britain’s new prince has been named George Alexander Louis, royal officials said Wednesday, ending speculation over what moniker Prince Wil...

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

Mexico’s drug war boils over again in Michoacan

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s rough western state of Michoacan, producer of avocados and waves of migrants, is proving just as painful a thorn in the side of President Enrique Pena Nieto as it was ...

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

Caroline Kennedy nominated as ambassador to Japan

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he is nominating former first daughter Caroline Kennedy as U.S. ambassador to Japan, offering the most famous living member of a ...

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

Hezbollah chief: EU yielded to US, Israeli will

BEIRUT – The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Wednesday ridiculed a European Union decision to place the group’s military wing on a terror list, accusing the body of capitulating to U.S. and...

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