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Syrian extremist rebels raid Shiite village

BEIRUT – Syrian rebels, including Sunni extremists, stormed a village and battled pro-regime militiamen, killing more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians in an attack steeped in the sectar...

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

Calm for now in Turkey protests as both sides talk

ISTANBUL — Police held their positions around Taksim Square on Wednesday, and protesters remained put as both sides awaited word on talks between the government and demonstrators to end Turk...

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

NSA director defends surveillance

Programs disrupted dozens of attacks, Alexander says

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

N.J. town to restrict baggy pants

WILDWOOD, N.J. – Mayor Ernest Troiano Jr. thinks he’s found a way to put one of this Jersey shore resort town’s problems behind it. Wildwood is ready to ban overly saggy pants, no ifs, ands ...

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

Nation Briefs

Morning-after pill sales coming – but not yet WASHINGTON – Don’t look for the morning-after pill to move onto drugstore shelves right away. But after a fight that’s lasted more ov...

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

Congress briefed about spy programs

WASHINGTON – Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday that the government’s years-lo...

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

Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon

TIMBUKTU, Mali – The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class. Except that the students in ...

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

1 man dead in 27-car Nevada sandstorm pileup

Twenty-seven vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck driver, seriously injuring several other peop...

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

Chinese craft blasts into space on docking mission

JIUQUAN, China – A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country’s fifth and longest manned space mission, taking three astronauts to an orbiting space lab from where they will give sc...

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

Grandma, 72, shoots at intruder, misses in Calif.

STANTON, Calif. – A 72-year-old Southern California grandmother who shot at – and narrowly missed – a man trying to break into her home said Tuesday she was shocked at the attention her acti...

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

World Briefs

Bombs hit Syrian capital amid regime offensive DAMASCUS, Syria – Twin suicide bombers targeted a police station in the center of Damascus Tuesday, killing 14 people as regime for...

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

Istanbul clashes go into night

30,000 protesters gather in park; police use force to clear the area

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

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