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U.S. reassures Syria rebels about its stance on Assad
BEIRUT — The new U.S.-Russia peace initiative for Syria will inevitably lead to the departure of President Bashar Assad, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Thursday, moving to reassure Syrian rebels and their allies that the Obama...
Tags: Weaponry, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), White House, Government, International Relations
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U.S. and Russia to seek Syria peace talks
MOSCOW — The United States and Russia agreed Tuesday to try to bring together the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the opposition for peace talks, signaling a potential breakthrough in long-stalled diplomatic efforts to end a bloody...Tags: Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Government, White House
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Israeli attacks in Syria aimed at Hezbollah, not as aid to rebels
Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Iranian weapons destined for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia could be seen as heralding wider international involvement in Syria’s intractable civil war. Reports of sarin gas attacks in Syria also conjure the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Weaponry, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Jerusalem (Israel), Government
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Russia, Japan renew quest for elusive WWII peace treaty
World War II lingers for Russia and Japan. Nearly 68 years after the fighting ended, the two Asian powers have yet to sign a peace treaty. That could change now that the leaders of both countries have solid nationalist credentials and could pull off...Tags: Shinzo Abe, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), China, Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues
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Trial opens for Russia opposition leader, who calls claims absurd
MOSCOW — One of Russia’s most prominent opposition leaders went on trial Wednesday, proclaiming his innocence but predicting that the case will lead to a lifetime ban on his participation in Russian electoral politics. “Any independent...
Tags: Civil Rights, Trials, Elections, Embezzlement, Parties and Movements
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Review: A night of Riehm rattles and excites
Although Pier Paolo Pasolini was best known as an Italian filmmaker, he called himself a poet and his Wikipedia entry begins by also describing him as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, columnist, actor, painter,...
Tags: Music Industry, Germany, Entertainment, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Philosophy
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Russia's Putin calls Boston attack 'disgusting'
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday began a U.S.-Russian youth hockey game opening the world championship competition by declaring a minute of silence for the casualties of the Boston bombings and the West, Texas, explosion. “In...
Tags: Pakistan, Human Rights, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Politics
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Boston suspects' father postpones trip to US
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Sunday that he has postponed a trip from Russia to the United States because of poor health. "I am really sick," Anzor Tsarnaev, 46, told The Associated Press. He said...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Russia, Wars and Interventions
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Fire in Russian psychiatric hospital kills 38
MOSCOW -- A fire swept quickly through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, most of them in their beds, officials said. The one-story brick-and-wood hospital building housed patients with severe mental disorders, Health...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Russia
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Review: Jennifer Koh shows her own genius with Bach program
With Montecito magically misted by a surprising spring drizzle Wednesday night, Jennifer Koh went, for a second time, beyond Bach. The violinist's awe-inspiring solo recital at the Music Academy of the West's Hahn Hall was the latest installment in her...
Tags: Entertainment, University of California, Santa Barbara, Arts and Culture, Culture, Robert Wilson
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Cardin to meet with family of Russian lawyer
Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive...
Tags: Government, White House, Heads of State, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Science and Technology
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Van Cliburn dead: American piano virtuoso was Cold War hero, cultural icon
Van Cliburn, the immensely talented American piano virtuoso with the down-home charm and big romantic style, whose gold-medal win at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 at the height of the Cold War made him a cultural icon...
Tags: New York City, Grant Park, Music Industry, Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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