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Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans
A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, United Nations, Credit and Debt, Dianne Feinstein, Prisoners and Detainees
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Brazil, Japan, sumo and food, deliciously intertwined
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Fernando Kuroda didn't like eating chankonabe at first, because he was forced to eat so much of the thick stew that he would get sick and could barely walk. "They would just fill me up and fill me up with food, or I wasn't...
Tags: Limes, Immigration, Lifestyle and Leisure, Customs and Tradition, Wrestling
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Government forces in Syria attack rebel stronghold of Qusair
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces launched a long-planned offensive early Sunday on the strategic city of Qusair and neighboring rebel-controlled villages near the Lebanese border, with heavy shelling that began shortly after midnight, according...
Tags: United Nations, Rebellions, Bashar Assad, Government, Lebanon
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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
JERUSALEM — Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations&...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Weaponry, Tel Aviv (Israel), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Defense Equipment
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Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo
MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be purchased from miles away, even when electricity lines and water pipes to Israeli settlements run directly past their...
Tags: Israeli Settlements, European Union, Palestinian National Authority, Israel, West Bank
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Syria's Assad dubious of U.S.-Russia peace initiative
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed skepticism that a planned U.S.-Russian peace conference could help stop the bloodshed in his country, according to an interview published Saturday in an Argentine newspaper. The Syrian leader...
Tags: United Nations, Taliban, Moscow (Russia), Terrorism, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: Media Industry, Barack Obama, Espionage Act of 1917, Espionage and Intelligence, The Associated Press
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Restraint is the new red in China
BEIJING — Exports of elegant Swiss watches to China have plunged. Sales of Mercedes-Benz and other premium sedans are slowing. And high-end restaurants, coming off their worst Chinese New Year festival in years, are starting to change their menus to...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Luxury Vehicles, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Media Industry, Gucci Group NV
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Anti-Taliban Afghan police chief gunned down in motorcycle attack
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- A police chief who had stood up repeatedly to the Taliban was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by four insurgents on motorcycles, officials said Saturday. The police chief, Abdul Ghani, was leaving his driveway in his car...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Motorvehicle Accidents, NATO
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Mexico's 'Popo' volcano spews ash, molten rock
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican officials are preparing evacuation routes and shelters for tens of thousands of people who live in the shadow of Popocatepetl, a giant volcano 40 miles southeast of Mexico City. "Popo," as the volcano is known, has displayed a...
Tags: Mexico, Landforms, Human Rights, Volcanoes, Malcolm X
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Ultra-Orthodox protest military draft in Israel
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of young ultra-Orthodox men protested Thursday night against a government proposal to, for the first time, draft them into the military. More than 20,000 protesters gathered at an Israel Defense Forces recruiting office in an...
Tags: Israel Defense Forces, Christian Orthodoxy, Israel, Religion and Belief, Government
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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Taliban, India, U.S. Elections, Times Square, Terrorism
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