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BEIRUT (AP) -- Explosions echoed over Damascus on Friday as Syrian troops clashed with rebels in some of the heaviest fighting yet in the capital in the 15-month uprising against President Bashar Assad. Troops also unleashed a heavy assault to retake a rebel-held neighborhood in a central flashpoint city, blasting it with heavy bombardment....

KUFR RAI, West Bank (AP) -- For the hundreds of Palestinian families who have a relative in Israeli detention, a photograph is the only real contact with their loved ones....

Coloradoan | Sheriff’s deputies secretly attached GPS tracker to the truck of a vocal critic who they feared was planning to kidnap her son.

Weekly Standard | Pentagon Warmongers redefine al Qaeda to suit their purposes.

DUBLIN (AP) -- When voters in Greece and France got the chance, they dealt a resounding "No!" to parties backing austerity measures. The Irish could be next to give the European Union's austerity plans a black eye....

DUBLIN (AP) -- When voters in Greece and France got the chance, they dealt a resounding "No!" to parties backing austerity measures. The Irish could be next to give the European Union's austerity plans a black eye....

DUBLIN (AP) -- When voters in Greece and France got the chance, they dealt a resounding "No!" to parties backing austerity measures. The Irish could be next to give the European Union's austerity plans a black eye....

DUBLIN (AP) -- When voters in Greece and France got the chance, they dealt a resounding "No!" to parties backing austerity measures. The Irish could be next to give the European Union's austerity plans a black eye....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Critical last-ditch talks to form a coalition government in crisis-struck Greece floundered once more Sunday, leading the country one step closer to new elections, although the socialist party leader said he retained "existing but limited' optimism for a deal....

RT | UK aid money has been spent forcibly sterilising Indian women. Many have died being mistreated.

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Forty-nine bodies, at least some of them mutilated, were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border, officials said....

Jonathan Benson | The genes responsible for spawning these so-called "superbugs" are also spreading.

J.D. Heyes | The agency itself is responsible for hatching the plots.

Susanne Posel | By calling her mission “family-planning programs” Gates hopes to shift the focus of their agenda from their plan to secure a coercive population control strategy.

News 9 | Convention business oddly moves to parking lot as Romney and Paul factions struggle for dominance.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony....

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony....

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces killed at least five people and torched a number of homes in a raid on a farming village Sunday that activists said showed worsening relations between Syria's myriad religious groups....

Austerity has been the main prescription across Europe for dealing with the continent's nearly 3-year-old debt crisis, brought on by too much government spending. But what does it mean for the average European? Imagine paying sales tax of 23 percent or more. Or having your wages cut by 15 percent. Or, if you're in Ireland, both. Austerity comes in many forms: higher taxes, fewer state benefits, more job cuts, working longer until retirement, you name it....