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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sharpening the choice for the nation, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney are offering dueling visions of how to fix the economy, framing in their most direct terms the fierce debate that will decide the November election. In a flash of campaign drama, the two are giving major speeches at nearly the same time Thursday from the same state, battleground Ohio....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sharpening the choice for the nation, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney are offering dueling visions of how to fix the economy, framing in their most direct terms the fierce debate that will decide the November election. In a flash of campaign drama, the two are giving major speeches at nearly the same time Thursday from the same state, battleground Ohio....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sharpening the choice for the nation, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney are offering dueling visions of how to fix the economy, framing in their most direct terms the fierce debate that will decide the November election. In a flash of campaign drama, the two are giving major speeches at nearly the same time Thursday from the same state, battleground Ohio....

GENEVA (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed steps by the international community to reach out to her country, long isolated because of its military dictatorship....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A retired Houston-area firefighter faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted him of murder for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a dispute over a noisy house party....

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's chancellor says Europe's lingering sovereign debt crisis will likely dominate this weekend's summit of the world's 20 most important economies in Mexico....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank....

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Cougars are again spreading across the Midwest a century after the generally reclusive predators were hunted to near extinction in much of the region, according to a new study billed as the first rigorous statistical look at the issue....

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Cougars are again spreading across the Midwest a century after the generally reclusive predators were hunted to near extinction in much of the region, according to a new study billed as the first rigorous statistical look at the issue....

CAIRO (AP) -- Iran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in countries whose autocratic leaders long shunned Tehran's ruling clerics. But it is finding the new order no more welcoming. Egypt is a prime example....

CAIRO (AP) -- Iran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in countries whose autocratic leaders long shunned Tehran's ruling clerics. But it is finding the new order no more welcoming. Egypt is a prime example....

CAIRO (AP) -- Iran once saw the Arab Spring uprisings as a prime opportunity, hoping it would open the door for it to spread its influence in countries whose autocratic leaders long shunned Tehran's ruling clerics. But it is finding the new order no more welcoming. Egypt is a prime example....

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Move over, Betsy Ross. There's a new generation of flag makers in Philadelphia....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Move over, Betsy Ross. There's a new generation of flag makers in Philadelphia....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Move over, Betsy Ross. There's a new generation of flag makers in Philadelphia....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Move over, Betsy Ross. There's a new generation of flag makers in Philadelphia....