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House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind
House lawmakers are beginning work on a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law that would give states more authority and Washington less.
Syria troops fight rebels near Shiite shrine
Syrian troops backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters clashed Wednesday with rebel forces south of a Damascus suburb that is home to a major Shiite ...
Obama in Berlin: "Our work is not yet done"
President Barack Obama is challenging Americans and Europeans not to become complacent even though the Cold War is over. Obama is speaking at Berlin's ...
Al-Qaida-linked fighters attack UN base in Somalia
Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated several bombs and breached the main U.N. compound in Somalia's capital Wednesday, sparking gun battles that killed ...
UK Girl Guides drop reference to God in pledge
Britain's Girl Guides have dropped a reference to God in their pledge. Gone is the reference to loving God, replaced by a call to "be true to myself ...
Afghan leader backs away from Taliban talks
Afghanistan's president said Wednesday he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations, while ...
Iraq officials say suicide attack kills politician
Iraqi officials say a suicide attack has killed a local political leader and four of his relatives in northern Iraq. A police officer said Wednesday ...
Palestinian party toughens line on Israel talks
An adviser to the Palestinian president says Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement wants him to stick to long-standing demands for resuming talks with Israel.
Egypt Islamists blame violence on opposition
Egypt's most powerful Muslim group on Wednesday blamed the secular and liberal opposition for a wave of violence over the appointment of new Islamist ...
China's Xi harks back to Mao in party 'cleanup'
China's new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Communist Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he's summed it up in a pithy slogan ...
UAE charges 30 suspects with plotting coup
A state security prosecutor in the United Arab Emirates says 30 Egyptian and UAE suspects have been charged with plotting a coup linked to a network ...
Zimbabwe's president goes back to court on polls
Zimbabwe's highest court said Wednesday it has received an application from longtime President Robert Mugabe's party to delay crucial elections by at ...
Dutch manure silo fall kills 3 farmworkers
Dutch police say three farmworkers have died and a fourth has been critically injured after they fell into a silo filled with manure for use as ...
Turkey's 'standing man' to join ranks of icons?
The image was stark: a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim ...
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
Former investigators of the TWA Flight 800 crash off Long Island are calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the case.
UN says 45.2 million refugees and displaced people
The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.
UN, US ask Filipinos not to leave Golan Heights
The United Nations and Washington have separately asked the Philippines not to withdraw its more than 300 Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan ...
Floods close Lourdes pilgrimage site in Pyrenees
Heavy floods in southwest France have forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels.
Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation
Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his ...
Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest city
Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament — ...
Red Cross' Guantanamo reports sought in 9/11 case
The International Committee of the Red Cross urged a military judge Tuesday to refuse a request to open its confidential communications with U.S.
Australian jailed for life for rape, murder
A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous ...
10 Things to Know for Wednesday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. TALIBAN, US AGREE TO PEACE TALKS Obama ...
US, Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war
The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the ...