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Hillary Clinton and the 'clot plot'
Apparently, if the secretary of state needs to take a sick day, she had better get a note from her doctor. A very "transparent" note, a very detailed note. With enough copies to send to her most vociferous critics. Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered a...Tags: David Petraeus, Fox News Channel (tv network), Viral Diseases and Infections, U.S. Department of State, George W. Bush
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China activists urge visits to confined wife of dissident
Her eyes showing anguish behind her glasses, Liu Xia whispers urgently into the ear of one of the Chinese activists who barrels past the guard at her Beijing apartment – a place that has become her prison. The brief video of their Friday...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Justice and Rights, Human Rights, Chen Guangcheng, Nobel Prize Awards
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AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali
MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's...
Tags: Atlantic Ocean, International Military Interventions, Africa, Religion and Belief, WikiLeaks
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Vietnam, 50 years on
HANOI, Vietnam -- It has been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. "advisers" to South Vietnam to help battle the communist North and 37 years since the end of that divisive war and the country's unification under Communism. Today,...Tags: Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Southeast Asia, Investments, Hanoi (Vietnam), Freedom of the Press
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Taking ownership of the homestead
Q: Four people were deeded a 1920 log cabin in another state several years ago. This cabin has been either quitclaim deeded or left through inheritance to four generations of family. I bought out one of the owners, so now I have fifty-percent...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Services and Shopping, Homes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Panel faults security failures in Benghazi attacks
WASHINGTON — The State Department was guilty of "systematic failures" in security that made the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Libya possible, a high-level investigative panel concluded in an unflinching examination made...Tags: Career and Workplace, Libya, U.S. Department of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Employees
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U.S., Afghan officials discuss troops' post-2014 legal jurisdiction
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Afghanistan here on the presence of U.S. forces beyond 2014, the two sides have held preliminary talks on legal jurisdiction over American troops, the lead American...
Tags: U.S. Military, International Military Interventions, Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Congress expected to pass Dent immigration bill this week
Call Washington BureauCongress is poised to send a bill to the president's desk this week that will help a Lebanese man from the Lehigh Valley become a U.S. citizen. Written by U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, the bill ensures that people with green cards working at U.S. embassies...Tags: Iraq, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Immigration, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Congress
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After the Arab Spring
The most enduring image from my travels across the Middle East this year was a Libyan street lined with bridal boutiques. Mannequins in bouffant white dresses, with beaded bustiers and satin rosettes, evoked Cinderella transformed by her ball gown....
Tags: Religion and Belief, Egypt, Libya, Arab Spring, Politics
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Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan
A self-described "meat and potatoes" conservative, Tony Ruiz often argued politics with his son. They clashed over perceptions of Islam after the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi was overrun. But Tony said his son, Clinton, made some good points. "He drew a...
Tags: Afghanistan, Music, Adele (music artist), Armed Forces, Religion and Belief
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Hillary Clinton will give five artists medals for embassy art
For 50 years the U.S. State Department has been deploying visual art as part of the art of diplomacy, via a program called Art in Embassies. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give the U.S. State Department Medal of Arts to five...
Tags: Arts and Culture, U.S. Department of State, Turkey, Human Interest, Museums
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Cease-Fire Holds in Gaza Despite Latest Flare-Up
CNNJerusalem -- A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to hold Friday despite reports that Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man near its border in Gaza. The soldiers opened fire when farmers were trying to reach their land near...Tags: Israel, Fatah, Politics, Israel Defense Forces, Injuries and Wounds
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