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World Briefs

Ukraine leader claims peace plan support MINSK, Belarus – The Interfax news agency is quoting Ukraine’s president as saying the leaders he met with in Minsk, which included Russia...

Surveillance flights over Syria underway

Move could lead to airstrikes on militants

Protesters call for police reforms

Demonstrators in St. Louis seek review board

Latest truce delays many hard decisions

Israel, Hamas cease-fire ends weeks of war

Judges blast Indiana, Wisconsin gay marriage bans

CHICAGO – Federal appeals judges bristled Tuesday at arguments defending gay marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin, with one Republican appointee comparing them to now-defunct laws that onc...

Army: Barricaded in office, soldier shot herself

FORT LEE, Va. – An enraged soldier with a gun barricaded herself in an office inside a major command’s headquarters, throwing objects and then shooting herself in the head as law enforcemen...

Dempsey in Afghanistan for transition talks

KABUL, Afghanistan – The top U.S. military officer says the Pentagon has developed plans that will allow American forces to stay in Afghanistan a bit beyond the end of the year if the cont...

S&P 500 trades above 2,000 points for first time

Summer doldrums? Not on Wall Street. The stock market notched another first on Monday as the Standard & Poor’s 500 index nudged briefly past the 2,000-point mark and closed with i...

Quiet descends on Ferguson

Funeral ceremony for Michael Brown held; scrutiny of police called for

Strong Napa, Calif., quake causes injuries, damage

NAPA, Calif. – The San Francisco Bay Area’s strongest earthquake in 25 years struck the heart of California’s wine country early Sunday, igniting gas-fed fires, damaging some of the region’s...

Nation & World Briefs

Rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers DONETSK, Ukraine – To shouts of “Fascists!” and “Hang them from a tree!” captured Ukrainian soldiers were paraded through the streets of ...

Panama Canal turns 100 amid doubts

Expansion woes put nation’s future in doubt