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Clinton honors '98 embassy victims

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 05:14 PM PDT

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday honored the victims of the American embassy bombings in East Africa in 1998 and told survivors that justice had been served with the killing of the attacks' suspected ...

U.S. troops leaving Saddam's palaces

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 05:16 PM PDT


BAGHDAD -- Available soon: nine palaces in lakeside complex frequented by visiting kings and dictators, beautiful molded ceilings and light fixtures, many bidets, Saddam Hussein mural and former prison cell. As is, with Tomahawk missile damage. Con ...

NATO at identity crossroads

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 05:15 PM PDT


PARIS -- Created as a bulwark against Soviet expansion, NATO is facing an identity crisis as its members grapple with just how much its long and often-unpopular mission in Afghanistan and its new air campaign in Libya size up as national interests ...

Reconciliation for Palestinian factions hits snag

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 05:15 PM PDT


JERUSALEM -- Ceremoniously announced last month, reconciliation between the two rival Palestinian leaderships -- the secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas -- hit a serious snag Sunday, another sign that the effort is not going well.
In the latest b ...

Ash from volcano strands up to 30,000 travelers

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 05:15 PM PDT


WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Tens of thousands of passengers in Australia and New Zealand were stranded when airlines suspended flights Sunday as an ash cloud from an erupting volcano in southern Chile spread, threatening to damage engines.
Australi ...

Syria's army seizes back mutinous town

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 05:14 PM PDT


BEIRUT -- Elite Syrian troops led by the president's brother regained control Sunday of a town where police and soldiers joined forces with the protesters they were ordered to shoot -- a decisive assault from a government prepared for an all-out ba ...

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