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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter

May 18, 2013
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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country. The Syrian leader's comments, published Saturday in…

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Pakistanis go to polls as 24 killed in attacks

May 11, 2013
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Pakistanis go to polls as 24 killed in attacks

A Pakistani woman shows her ink-stained thumb after casting her ballot at a polling station in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But bombings that…

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Palestinian group says Syria OKs attacks on Israel

May 7, 2013
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Palestinian group says Syria OKs attacks on Israel

An Israeli soldier drives an armored personal carrier during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)An Israeli soldier drives an armored personal carrier during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7,…

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Activists: Israeli strike kills 42 Syrian soldiers

May 6, 2013
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Activists: Israeli strike kills 42 Syrian soldiers

In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke and fire fill the the skyline over Damascus, Syria, early Sunday, May 5, 2013 after an Israeli airstrike. Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off…

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Israeli strike on Syria targeted weapons shipment

May 4, 2013
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Israeli strike on Syria targeted weapons shipment

FILE - In this June 3, 2012 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. Israel launched an airstrike into Syria, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said Friday night, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA, File)FILE - In…

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5 car bombs kill 36 in Shiite areas across Iraq

April 29, 2013
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5 car bombs kill 36 in Shiite areas across Iraq

Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the southern Shiite city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April. 29, 2013. Five car bombs exploded Monday in predominantly Shiite cities and districts in central and southern Iraq, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo)Civilians…

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NYPD: Part of 9/11 plane’s landing gear discovered

April 26, 2013
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NYPD: Part of 9/11 plane’s landing gear discovered

Buy AP Photo Reprints NEW YORK (AP) — A piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered wedged between a New York City mosque and another building.New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said Friday the part includes a Boeing identification number.…

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Officials: At least 185 killed in Nigeria attack

April 21, 2013
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Officials: At least 185 killed in Nigeria attack

Buy AP Photo Reprints BAGA, Nigeria (AP) — Officials say fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists in a town in the nation's northeast has killed at least 185 people.Lawan Kole, a local government official in Baga, told Borno state officials on a visit Sunday that the killings started Friday night and went on for…

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16 killed in attack on Somali Supreme Court

April 14, 2013
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16 killed in attack on Somali Supreme Court

Somali soldiers carry a wounded civilian from the entrance of Mogadishu’s court complex after being injured during a siege by militants in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended…

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Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq

April 9, 2013
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Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra waving their brigade flag on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter, at Taftanaz air base that…

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