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U.N.: Most fail gender parity goal in education PARIS – More than half of the world’s countries have failed to achieve gender parity in education for girls in primary and secondar...

DATE: Oct 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pentagon giving up on building new Syrian rebel force

Military to focus on aiding groups already fighting

DATE: Oct 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Doctors group pushes for probe Charity seeks answers on hospital attack

KABUL, Afghanistan – A day after President Barack Obama apologized for a tragic U.S. airstrike that killed at least 22 people at a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in northern Afghani...

DATE: Oct 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House speaker’s race now wide open

Chamber in ‘total confusion’ after McCarthy drops out

DATE: Oct 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Hundreds attend SeaWorld meeting LONG BEACH, Calif.– Protesters and supporters filled a meeting room Thursday where a California commission was considering a vast expansion to the...

DATE: Oct 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. airman who thwarted French train attack stabbed in brawl

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, celebrated as a hero for helping to stop a terror attack on a French train over the summer, was stabbed and seriously wounded outside a b...

DATE: Oct 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

3 win Nobel for work in understanding cells

Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for having mapped and explained how the cell repairs its DNA and safeguards its genetic ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

DAs air concerns about early releases

Prosecutors fear many inmates pose threat

DATE: Oct 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Obama apologizes to doctors group WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday for the American air attack that killed at least 22 people...

DATE: Oct 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Carter nears decision on women in combat

Hints that he will open more jobs to them

DATE: Oct 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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EU seeks Turkey’s help with refugees BRUSSELS – The European Union is ready to offer Turkey new incentives to better tackle the Syria refugee crisis, including money, the easing ...

DATE: Oct 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World