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- World marking 100th anniversary of Titanic sinking
- UN votes to send monitors to Syria
- Secret Service involved in prostitution scandal
- Hugo Chavez skips summit, citing doctors' orders
- Egypt bars three front-runners from presidential race
- Iran, Western powers hail latest nuclear talks
- Obama's foreign policy draws domestic criticism
| World marking 100th anniversary of Titanic sinking Posted: 14 Apr 2012 05:10 PM PDT ABOARD MS BALMORAL -- In the birthplace of the Titanic, residents gathered for a choral requiem. In the North Atlantic, above the ship's final resting place, passengers will pray as a band strikes up a hymn and three floral wreaths are cast onto th ... |
| UN votes to send monitors to Syria Posted: 14 Apr 2012 05:10 PM PDT BEIRUT -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to dispatch a first team of monitors to Syria to shore up a brittle cease-fire as escalating fighting between regime and rebel forces threatened the truce at the heart of special envoy ... |
| Secret Service involved in prostitution scandal Posted: 14 Apr 2012 05:10 PM PDT CARTAGENA, Colombia -- An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents widened Saturday when the U.S. military confirmed five service members staying at the same hotel in Colombia may have been involved in misconduct as well ... |
| Hugo Chavez skips summit, citing doctors' orders Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:54 AM PDT CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez skipped the Summit of the Americas for medical reasons Saturday, with his cancer treatment increasingly forcing him out of the international spotlight.Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro a ... |
| Egypt bars three front-runners from presidential race Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:54 AM PDT CAIRO -- Egypt's election commission disqualified 10 presidential hopefuls, including Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief and fundamentalist Islamists, from running Saturday in a surprise decision that left a field of moderates in the race for the count ... |
| Iran, Western powers hail latest nuclear talks Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:51 AM PDT ISTANBUL -- In a rare show of unity, Iran and the world's big powers on Saturday hailed their first nuclear meeting in more than a year as a key step toward further negotiations meant to ease international fears that Tehran may weaponize its nuclear ... |
| Obama's foreign policy draws domestic criticism Posted: 14 Apr 2012 05:10 PM PDT CARTAGENA, Colombia -- President Barack Obama's willingness to engage with America's adversaries comes with promise and peril, a reality hammered home by signs of progress in nuclear talks with Iran and a setback in North Korea's provocative rocket l ... |
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