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Native American vets push for recognition
The Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who became a symbol of courage and patriotism when he ...
Schumer: Group of senators to look at media leaks
Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday a group of eight senators will look at setting rules on how leaks about government secrets are investigated. "We'll be ...
Protest in Paris against France's gay marriage law
Tens of thousands of people protested against France's new gay marriage law in central Paris on Sunday, and police clashed with right-wing ...
Egypt's court says police and army should vote
Egyptian Islamists and former members of the nation's military voiced concern Sunday about the potential pitfalls stemming from a decision by the ...
Kenya: UK soldier killing suspect arrested in 2010
A suspect in last week's savage killing of a British soldier on a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010 while apparently preparing to train and ...
Israel's president calls for return to peace talks
Israel's president on Sunday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to overcome differences and resume peace negotiations, saying the sides could not ...
Wanted Ugandan general says he is hiding in London
A wanted Ugandan general who questioned the president's succession plan has requested the protection of British police and won't return home anytime ...
Rockets in Lebanon capital signal Syrian spillover
Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese ...
Kenya police kill terrorist linked to al-Shabab
A Kenyan police official says the country's anti-terrorism police have killed a wanted terrorist and recovered a cache of weapons in the port city of ...
Iraq officials says separate attacks kill 14
A string of attacks killed at least 14 people in Iraq on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence of what has been a particularly bloody month ...
Afghan police rescued aid workers trapped in siege
Ten terrified international aid workers huddled inside a fortified room in Kabul for two hours during a Taliban attack until they were rescued by ...
French police search for man who stabbed soldier
French anti-terrorism investigators were combing video surveillance tapes Sunday as they continued their manhunt for a suspect who stabbed a soldier ...
Militants kill 6 in attack on Kenyan police posts
Gunmen believed to be Somali militants killed six people in an overnight attack on police posts near Kenya's border with Somalia, Kenya's police chief ...
Burkina Faso soldiers in Mali worry about defense
African soldiers in the fabled city of Timbuktu worry their equipment, training and circumstances are not adequate to defend against another takeover ...
Pope urges Mafiosi to stop exploitation of others
Pope Francis paid tribute to a courageous priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia as a martyr and urged mobsters on Sunday to abandon their evil ways, ...
Suspected rebels kill 24; India officials outraged
Indian officials reacted with outrage Sunday to an audacious attack by about 200 suspected Maoist rebels who killed 24 people by setting off a bomb ...
Police hunt for Sweden rioters after violent week
Swedish police say they are looking for perpetrators involved in the weeklong riots in Stockholm suburbs that have resulted in some 220 reported ...
Iran fields 'massive' number of missile launchers
Iran has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers, state TV reported Sunday. The new weapon components delivered to Iranian ...
2 rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold
A pair of rockets slammed into a car dealership and a residential building in strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia in southern Beirut on Sunday, ...
1 victim of Russian suicide bombing dies of wounds
A woman who was among those wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan has died. Police and ...
Giffords, husband address graduates at Bard
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords urged a group of newly minted college graduates on Saturday to change the world — starting tomorrow. The former ...
Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a ...
Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the ...
Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it ...
Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers
Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been ...