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Obama has leverage to get his way on Guantanamo
President Barack Obama's renewed request to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, confirms what the detainees have already shown with their hunger strike: Permanent detention at the U.S. naval station isn't viable as a matter of practicality or...Tags: Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, George W. Bush
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Tilting Syria
President Barack Obama painted himself into a corner last summer when he said Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against rebel forces would be a "red line for us." Now there's evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria,...
Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Bashar Assad, David Petraeus, Weaponry, Leon Panetta
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Obama must find the best bad option in Syria
Having vowed that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a U.S. "red line" and provoke a strong American response "with enormous consequences," President Barack Obama now finds himself under increasing pressure to act, following reports by U.S....Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Bashar Assad, Weaponry, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions
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Casey: U.S. should intervene in Syrian crisis
Sen. Bob Casey added his name Friday to a growing list of lawmakers urging the White House to take some form of military action against Syria in the wake of new evidence that President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. Casey,...Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Marco Rubio, Weaponry
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Latest Maryland and Delaware news, sports, business and entertainment:
O'Malley to sign death penalty repeal next week ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Martin O'Malley plans to sign a measure repealing capital punishment in Maryland into law. Raquel Guillory, a spokeswoman for O'Malley, confirmed on Thursday that O'...Tags: Gun Control, Prisons, Corporate Officers, Prosecution, Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland)
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China's Middle East footprint
Security in the Forbidden City across the street from the Great Hall of the People was tight last month when Li Keqiang was installed as premier of China. But the uniformed guards weren't armed with automatic weapons. Instead, they were equipped with fire...
Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Morsi, Asia
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Car bomb explodes at French Embassy in Libya
CAIRO -- A car bomb exploded at the French Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, injuring three people and raising the specter that Islamist militants were seeking retribution for France’s military strikes against extremists in the West African...
Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Emergency Incidents, North Africa, Fishing, Explosions
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French embassy in Tripoli hit by car bomb
Residents living near the embassy compound, in the capital's Hay Andalus area, said they heard two blasts early in the morning around 7:00 a.m. "We think it was a booby trapped car," a French embassy official told Reuters. "There was a lot of damage and...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Tripoli (Libya), Benghazi
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'Arab Spring,' once an inspiration, now a more cautionary tale
Two years ago, the "Arab Spring" that deposed dictators and demagogues was an inspiration to hundreds of millions of repressed souls across the Middle East who yearned for a say in how they were governed. Today, with the Egyptian economy in ruins,...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Democracy, Lebanon, Mohamed Morsi, Politics
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An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, raise taxes on the wealthy and trim popular benefit programs including Social Security and...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Global Change, Gun Control, Prisons
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Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya
ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock. The rebels who captured him after the 2011 civil war that toppled his father have refused to turn him over to the central...
Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Petroleum Industry, Substance Abuse, Tripoli (Libya), Wars and Interventions
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Kerry mourns 'selfless, idealistic' US diplomat
ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday railed against the "cowardly" terrorists responsible for the attack that killed five Americans in Afghanistan, including a "selfless, idealistic" young diplomat on a mission to donate...
Tags: Explosions, Terrorism, Taliban, Rebellions, The Washington Post
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