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What to expect this week from school protests rattling France's government
Radical Jews burn mosque in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — Arsonists torched a mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel Monday, setting off protests by residents who clashed with police. Graffiti sprayed at the site suggested Jewish radicals, suspected…
Afghan leader gives up trying to talk to Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai has given up trying to talk to the Taliban, saying in a video released Saturday that Pakistan holds the only key to…
Jazz diplomacy
ISLAMABAD - Carrots haven't worked with Pakistan. Neither have sticks. Now the U.S. has enlisted the power of jazz music to improve relations with Pakistanis a…
Yemen's al-Qaida remains threat after drone strike
SANAA, Yemen - Al-Qaida's branch remains a powerful threat in this deeply unstable nation, even after a U.S. drone strike that eliminated three of its key figu…
Killing Americans: On uncharted ground in attack
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama steered the nation's war machine into uncharted territory Friday when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in a…
U.S. fugitive hid in Portugal hamlet
ALMOCAGEME, Portugal - He lived the sweet life for decades. But nobody knew he was on the run.
Knox changed under the spotlight
PERUGIA, Italy - Two years ago, as she waited to know whether she'd be found guilty of murdering her British roommate, Amanda Knox was so confident she thought she'd be flying home to Seattle within hours.
Manila cleans up after typhoon, rains kill 18
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Emergency services and residents in the Philippine capital cleaned up and restored electricity Wednesday after a powerful typhoon un…
World/Nation Briefs September 27, 2011
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Satellite still on for Friday freefall from space
Obama, Europeans press Palestinians on UN bid
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Furiously scrambling to head off a U.N. showdown, the United States warned world leaders Wednesday that trying to create a Palestinian na…
Way of life melting away
DISKO ISLAND, Greenland - The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people's frozen lands.
World/Nation Briefs September 21, 2011
Many in Joplin ignored firsttornado warnings