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U.S., Israeli leaders divided over Iran

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:23 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Taking sharply different stands, President Barack Obama urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized his nation's right to a pre-emptive attack. Ev ...

Iraqi police targeted in early-morning attack

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST


BAGHDAD -- Assailants waving the battle flag of al-Qaida gunned down 25 policemen Monday in a brazen and well-orchestrated challenge to government control over a strategic town fraught with Iraq war symbolism.
The attack replicated tactics used by ...

Anti-Putin protest quickly dispersed in Russia

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:08 PM PST


MOSCOW -- Riot police on Monday quickly and forcefully broke up an opposition attempt to occupy a downtown square in a bid to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election, arresting dozens of participants, inc ...

Guantanamo goes lighter in sentencing

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The military tribunals held at this isolated U.S. outpost have been lambasted as kangaroo courts, heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution. But most of the convictions so far have led to lighter than expected se ...

Egyptian politician out over nose job

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST

CAIRO -- A lawmaker from Egypt's most conservative Islamist party resigned from parliament after he was caught lying to cover up a nose job, claiming the injuries to his heavily bandaged face were from a carjacking and beating.Parliament member Anwar ...

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