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Rebels besiege airports in northern Syria
Syrian rebels stepped up their siege of a government helicopter base and clashed with soldiers near Aleppo's international airport on Friday, part of ...
Correction: Vatican-Christmas Shopping story
In a story Dec. 23 about the Vatican's tax-free department store, The Associated Press erroneously reported that online cigar retailer www.
Pakistan seeks help to rescue 23 missing police
Pakistani officials pressured tribal elders Friday to help rescue 23 policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban during attacks on their ...
Nowhere to use Japan's growing plutonium stockpile
How is an atomic-powered island nation riddled with fault lines supposed to handle its nuclear waste? Part of the answer was supposed to come from ...
Mich. governor signs new emergency manager law
Gov. Rick Snyder put a new emergency manager law on the books in Michigan on Thursday, weeks after voters repealed a version that gave sweeping powers ...
Police offer 'virtual ridealongs' via Twitter
Riding side by side as a police officer answers a call for help or investigates a brutal crime during a ridealong gives citizens an up close look at ...
Mexico City seeks beauty in public-space makeover
The plan is as big as this mammoth city: Turn a seedy metro hub into Mexico City's Times Square; clear swarms of feisty vendors and remodel the ...
Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money
The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: ...
Pakistan: Bhutto's son launches political career
The 24-year-old son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto launched his political career Thursday with a fiery speech before thousands of ...
Police union seeks more help for Newtown officers
Some of the police officers who responded to the school shooting in Newtown are so traumatized they haven't been working, but they have to use sick ...
Sandy-flooded inland towns in NJ see no solutions
Images of New Jersey's devastated shoreline captivated the nation in the days after Superstorm Sandy. Less noticed was the enormous damage caused ...
Obama's 2nd inauguration to draw smaller crowds
Visitors coming to the nation's capital for President Barack Obama's second inauguration can't stay in the one place President Ronald Reagan's family ...
DC hotels less busy for Obama's 2nd inauguration
Visitors coming to the nation's capital for President Barack Obama's second inauguration can't stay in the one place President Ronald Reagan's family ...
Indian land program shows tech's limits
For years, Karnataka's land records were a quagmire of disputed, forged documents maintained by thousands of tyrannical bureaucrats who demanded ...
UN envoy worried after talks with Syria's Assad
The international envoy to Syria said after talks with the country's leader Monday that the situation was "worrying" and gave no indication of ...
Ga. counties sue HSBC claiming loss of tax base
Three Atlanta-area counties have filed a lawsuit claiming that British bank HSBC cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in extra expenses and ...
Car bomb defused outside Spanish megabrothel
A car bomb was defused in a megabrothel's parking lot in northeast Spain early Monday and 300 people were evacuated from the site, the Interior ...
Syria jets kill tens as international envoy visits
A government airstrike Sunday on a bakery in a rebel-held town in central Syria killed more than 60 people, activists said, casting a pall over a ...
Argentina import controls put brake on bike sales
Summer has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and bicyclists all over the Argentine capital have hit the streets to enjoy the warm weather.
Syrian Christians fear bleak future after Assad
With Christmas just days away, 40-year-old Mira begged her parents to flee their hometown of Aleppo, which has become a major battleground in Syria's ...
Urban advocates say new gun control talk overdue
For years, voices have cried in the urban wilderness: We need to talk about gun control. Yet the guns blazed on. It took a small-town slaughter for ...
Oman holds first municipal elections
Oman says more than 1,400 candidates are competing in the Gulf nation's first municipal elections, a concession following Arab Spring-linked unrest.
NRA calls for armed police officer in every school
Guns and police officers in all American schools are what's needed to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings," the National Rifle Association ...
Basic facts on Egypt's constitution referendum
Egyptians vote Saturday in the second round of a highly contentious referendum on a new constitution to replace the one suspended after the 2011 ...
Syrian rebels step up attacks on strategic sites
Syria's rebels stepped up attacks on strategic sites including a sprawling military complex in the country's north on Friday, while reports emerged ...