| Obama, Congress confer on Iraq strategy Posted: 18 Jun 2014 01:59 PM PDT  U.S. politicians clash over who is to blame for the insurgents' advance.
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| Slow justice for Benghazi victims: What's next for Libyan suspect Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:08 PM PDT  The U.S. military got its man, and has handed him over to the Justice Department. What lies ahead for Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan militant accused of being a mastermind of the 2012 Benghazi attacks?
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| Nigeria arrests senior Boko Haram member Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:52 PM PDT  Rebel was found among group of nearly 500 travelers in Abia state, Nigeria's military said.
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| Iraq requests U.S. air strikes Posted: 18 Jun 2014 01:33 PM PDT  Query follows a lightning advance by Sunni rebels, urging swift action by the Shi'ite-led gov't.
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| All the world's a stage, and all the politicians merely players Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:46 AM PDT  Members of Congress spend an evening acting out Shakespeare.
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| Amazon unveils Fire smartphone Posted: 18 Jun 2014 11:05 AM PDT  CEO Jeff Bezos: Fire Phone is smaller than an Android, but larger than an iPhone.
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| New anxiety for hard-hit Fort Hood families Posted: 18 Jun 2014 08:43 AM PDT  Iraq war claimed the lives of 519 soldiers from Texas base, most of any U.S. military post.
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| Senators propose 12-cent gas tax increase Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:23 PM PDT  Two senators unveiled a bipartisan plan Wednesday to raise federal gasoline and diesel taxes for the first time in more than two decades, pitching the proposal as a solution to Congress' struggle to pay for highway and transit programs.
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| Trademark board slams Redskins name as 'disparaging' Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:12 AM PDT  U.S. Patent Office cancels trademarks, says nickname is "disparaging" to Native Americans.
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| No-frills celebrations planned for Spain's new king Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:40 PM PDT  Crown Prince Felipe ascends to the Spanish throne at midnight Wednesday, but there won't be any ritzy official celebrations.
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| Abandoned Ukrainian boy transformed by U.S. surgeries Posted: 18 Jun 2014 05:59 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Ihor Lakatosh struggles to describe his life before the surgeries, when his severe burns went untreated for years in his native Ukraine, leaving him with one arm fused to his body, unable to walk and abandoned by his mother.
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| Libya demands return of Benghazi suspect Posted: 18 Jun 2014 07:11 AM PDT  Libya on Wednesday condemned U.S. special forces' arrest of a man on its soil suspected of masterminding a deadly Islamist militant attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, describing the detention as a violation of Libyan sovereignty. In the first official reaction from Tripoli, Justice Minister Saleh al-Marghani said the suspect, Ahmed Abu Khatallah, should be returned to Libya and tried there. Said al Saoud, spokesman for the foreign ministry, said:"This attack on Libya sovereignty happened at a time when Benghazi is suffering from many problems." U.S. President Barack Obama said he authorised the operation in Libya on Sunday in which U.S. commandos snatched Khatallah on Benghazi's outskirts, and that he was being transported to the United States for prosecution.
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| Humiliation hits Iraqi military hard Posted: 18 Jun 2014 05:53 AM PDT  Soldiers tell of how they can hardly live with the shame of their rout by Islamic militants.
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| Ukraine's Poroshenko sets out ceasefire plan after Putin call Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:27 AM PDT  By Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - After a late-night telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday set out proposals for a peace plan for eastern Ukraine involving a unilateral ceasefire by government forces. Speaking to students at a military institute in Kiev, Poroshenko outlined a 14-step plan, including an amnesty for separatist fighters who lay down arms, and tighter controls over Ukraine's border with Russia. Ukraine accuses Russia of backing the rebels in the industrial Russian-speaking east who rose up after mass protests in Kiev toppled Viktor Yanukovich, a president sympathetic to Moscow.
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| Chinese dog-eaters throw off activists with early feast Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:43 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Residents in a southern Chinese city that has come under fire for an annual summer solstice festival in which thousands of dogs are slaughtered for food have held their feasts early to avoid attention.
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| Al-Maliki delivers upbeat message to Iraqis Posted: 18 Jun 2014 04:24 AM PDT  In TV address, PM says lightning attacks by Sunni militants helped restore national unity.
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| 2 U.S. inmates put to death within an hour Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:01 AM PDT  The executions in Missouri and Georgia are the first since Oklahoma botched one in April.
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| Report: Ukraine president offers cease-fire Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:57 AM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president said Wednesday that government forces will unilaterally cease fire to allow pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country a chance to lay down weapons or leave the country, a potential major development to bring peace to the country.
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| Militants lay siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:58 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic militants laid siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery Wednesday, threatening a facility key to the country's domestic supplies as part of their ongoing offensive north of the capital, a top security official said.
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| Blast hits fans at World Cup screening in northern Nigeria Posted: 17 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT  An explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria on Tuesday, police and residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. The blast at the Crossfire venue, in the Nayi-Nawa area of the state capital of Yobe, happened shortly after tournament hosts Brazil kicked off against Mexico at 8:00 pm (1900 GMT). Sanusi Ruf'ai, police commissioner for Yobe state, told AFP: "There was an explosion outside a soccer viewing centre here in Damaturu at around 8:15 pm. The blast comes after at least two states banned viewing centres on security grounds following previous attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants, whose five-year insurgency in northern Nigeria has claimed thousands of lives.
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| GOP leader: Obama may act in Iraq without signoff Posted: 18 Jun 2014 04:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders believe he does not need authorization from Congress for some steps he might take to quell the al-Qaida-inspired insurgency sweeping through Iraq, the Senate's top Republican and Capitol Hill aides said after the president briefed senior lawmakers Wednesday. |
| Iraq's al-Maliki extends overtures to rivals Posted: 18 Jun 2014 04:07 PM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces and Sunni militants battled fiercely for control of the nation's largest oil refinery on Wednesday as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went on a diplomatic offensive, reaching out in a televised address to try to regain support from the nation's disaffected Sunnis and Kurds.
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| Gulf nations struggle with Iraq militant blowback Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:12 PM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and other petro-powerhouses of the Gulf for years encouraged a flow of private cash to Sunni rebels in Syria. Now an al-Qaida breakaway group that benefited from some of that funding has stormed across a wide swath of Iraq, and Gulf nations fear its extremism could be a threat to them as well.
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| US aims for trial of Benghazi suspect held on ship Posted: 18 Jun 2014 11:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The capture of an alleged leader of the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, gave U.S. officials a rare moment of good news. Now, they are preparing to try the captured Libyan in the U.S. court system and pledging to double down on catching others responsible for the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in the attacks. |
| US Patent Office finds Redskins' name offensive Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins' name is "disparaging of Native Americans" and should be stripped of trademark protection — a decision that puts powerful new financial and political pressure on the NFL team to rename itself.
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| Afghan candidate seeks halt to runoff vote count Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:22 PM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah demanded Wednesday that Afghan electoral authorities stop counting ballots from a weekend runoff vote, citing new allegations of widespread fraud. The election commission refused and appealed to all sides to await final results.
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| Ukraine's president offers cease-fire in east Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:12 PM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The new president of Ukraine promised on Wednesday that government troops would soon stop firing on pro-Russian armed separatists, offering a chance to end the fighting that has killed hundreds and wracked the industrial east.
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| US man, 89, is held on Nazi death camp charges Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:25 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An 89-year-old Philadelphia man was ordered held without bail Wednesday on a German arrest warrant charging him with aiding and abetting the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children while he was a guard at the Auschwitz death camp. |
| Concerns aside, executions persist in some states Posted: 18 Jun 2014 01:31 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — With Florida preparing Wednesday for the nation's third execution in less than 24 hours, some death penalty states — particularly in the South — appear unfazed by the recent furor over how the U.S. carries out lethal injections.
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| BRAZIL BEAT: Chilean celebration in Belo Horizonte Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:54 PM PDT  BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Dozens of Chileans paraded through a posh shopping and restaurant district in Belo Horizonte, beating drums, waving flags and dancing in the streets after their team knocked Spain out of the World Cup in Rio De Janeiro.
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