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Factory collapse victims buried
World Comments Updated: May 02, 2013 12:05amBy CHRIS BLAKE
Associated Press
JURAIN, Bangladesh — Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a mass funeral...
Israel says conflict over recognition, not territory
World Comments Updated: May 02, 2013 12:05amBy ARON HELLER
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister gave a cool reception Wednesday to a new Arab Mideast peace initiative, saying the conflict with the Palestinians...
Assad in rare visit to capital
World Comments Updated: May 02, 2013 12:05amBy JAMAL HALABY
Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance at a Damascus power station on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near the...
Syrian PM escapes death
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amBy ALBERT AJI
and RYAN LUCAS
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the heart of the heavily defended capital...
UN: Allow chemical weapons experts
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amBy EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Syria again Monday to allow experts into the country without delay or conditions to...
260K died in Somali famine
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amBy JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published...
Bangladesh building’s owner grilled
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amAssociated Press
SAVAR, Bangladesh — A Bangladesh court on Monday gave police 15 days to interrogate the owner of a building that collapsed last week, killing at least 382 people, as...
NATO crash kills 4; Taliban begin spring offensive
World Comments Updated: Apr 28, 2013 12:06amAssociated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — A NATO plane crash in southern Afghanistan killed four international troops on Saturday, the same day the Taliban announced its spring offensive and...
Bangladesh building collapse death toll nears 350
World Comments Updated: Apr 28, 2013 12:06amBy FARID HOSSAIN and JULHAS ALAM
Associated Press
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Police in Bangladesh took six people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed...
NKorea charges US man in plot to overthrow regime
World Comments Updated: Apr 28, 2013 12:06amAssociated Press
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to...
