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Hezbollah: Syria will shell out weapons
World Comments Updated: May 10, 2013 12:06amBy BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
BEIRUT — Syria will supply “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah, the chief of the Lebanese militant group said Thursday, less than a week after Israeli...
Bangladesh collapse toll hits 950
World Comments Updated: May 10, 2013 12:06amBy JULHAS ALAM
Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A fire at a sweater manufacturer killed eight people — including a senior police officer, a Bangladeshi politician and a top...
Israel moving ahead with new settler housing
World Comments Updated: May 10, 2013 12:06amBy TIA GOLDENBERG
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel has given preliminary approval to build nearly 300 housing units in a West Bank settlement, a spokesman said Thursday, bringing a...
31 detained in probe of $50M diamond heist
World Comments Updated: May 09, 2013 12:06amBy RAF CASERT
Associated Press
BRUSSELS — Unlike the brilliant thieves in “Ocean’s Eleven,” it appears that those behind the clockwork-precision, $50 million diamond heist at Brussels...
Syria says Web outage was technical problem
World Comments Updated: May 09, 2013 12:06amBy BASSEM MROUE AND KARIN LAUB
Associated Press
BEIRUT — A problem with a fiber optics cable was responsible for an Internet outage that cut off civil war-ravaged Syria from the rest...
US, South Korea unite against North Korea
World Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 12:05amBy JULIE PACE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Projecting a united front, President Barack Obama and South Korea’s new leader warned North Korea on Tuesday against further nuclear...
Bangladesh factory death toll hits 700
World Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 12:05amBy JULHAS ALAM
Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Hundreds of survivors of last month’s collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh protested for compensation...
Islamist party rally bombed
World Comments Updated: May 07, 2013 12:06amBy HUSSAIN AFZAL
Associated Press
PARACHINAR, Pakistan — An explosion ripped through a campaign rally of a leading Islamist party in Pakistan on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding...
Israeli airstrike in Syria aimed at Iran
World Comments Updated: May 07, 2013 12:06amBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and KARIN LAUB
Associated Press
BEIRUT — From Israel’s perspective, its airstrikes near Damascus were more about Iran than Syria: Tehran’s shipment of guided missiles...
Israel strikes Syria
World Comments Updated: May 06, 2013 12:05amBy KARIN LAUB
Associated Press
BEIRUT — A look at the reasons for and possible implications of the escalation of Israel’s involvement in Syria’s civil war.
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