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U.S. rallying allies to back Syria strikes
posted: 08/27/2014 3:08 a.m. Discuss
The United States has begun to mobilize a broad coalition of allies behind potential military action in Syria and is moving toward expanded airstrikes in northern Iraq, administration officials said Tuesday.
Ukrainian: Peace plan gains support
posted: 08/27/2014 3:02 a.m. Discuss
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said early today that he has support for a peace plan from leaders who attended a summit in Minsk, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Interfax news agency reported.
Open-ended cease-fire caps 7 weeks of Gaza fighting
posted: 08/27/2014 2:58 a.m. Discuss
Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory.
Japanese utility liable in woman's '11 suicide
posted: 08/27/2014 2:42 a.m. Discuss
TOKYO -- A court in Fukushima has ruled that Tokyo Electric Power Co., the Japanese nuclear power plant operator, can be held responsible for the suicide of a woman who became depressed after a 2011 disaster at the Daiichi plant.
Jewish center back after India attacks
posted: 08/27/2014 2:42 a.m. Discuss
MUMBAI, India — Rabbis from across Asia on Tuesday celebrated the reopening of a Jewish center that had been targeted by Pakistani gunmen who stormed through Mumbai on a 60-hour killing rampage in 2008.
U.S.: Libya in 'very fragile place'
posted: 08/27/2014 2:29 a.m. Discuss
WASHINGTON -- Egypt and the United Arab Emirates secretly carried out airstrikes against Islamist militias inside Libya, the United States publicly acknowledged Tuesday, another sharp jolt to American-led attempts over the past three years to stabilize Libya after dictator Moammar Gadhafi's overthrow.
CDC chief to Africans: Have hope
posted: 08/27/2014 2:27 a.m. Discuss
MONROVIA, Liberia -- The Ebola virus still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, a top American health official said during a visit to the hardest-hit countries.
Afghan candidate threatens withdrawal
posted: 08/27/2014 2:26 a.m. Discuss
KABUL, Afghanistan -- One of the two candidates for Afghan president will withdraw from a contested audit of the results unless election officials meet a series of technical demands made by his campaign, one of his top aides said Tuesday.
U.S. student vanishes on Jerusalem Forest hike
posted: 08/27/2014 2:24 a.m. Discuss
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police said Tuesday that they are searching for a U.S. religious student who disappeared while on a hike in a forest outside Jerusalem last week.
Austrian party says gnomes no garden-variety whodunit
posted: 08/27/2014 2:23 a.m. Discuss
Last weekend in the mountainous Austrian state of Vorarlberg, 400 gnomes disappeared. Nobody admits to knowing where they have gone, but some think the disappearance was political.
Israel, Hamas agree to open-ended Gaza cease-fire
posted: 08/26/2014 1:41 p.m. Discuss
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory.
Officials: U.S. surveillance planes fly over Syria
posted: 08/26/2014 10:57 a.m. Comment 1
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK, U.S. officials said, a move that could pave the way for airstrikes against Islamic State militant targets there.
Putin and Poroshenko meet for bilateral talks
updated: 08/26/2014 1:43 p.m. Discuss
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine are meeting for their first bilateral talks at a much-anticipated summit in Minsk, which many voiced hopes may help bring an end to fighting between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine.
Early Ukraine elections set
posted: 08/26/2014 4:02 a.m. Discuss
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's president dissolved the nation's parliament Monday and called for early elections in October as his country continues to battle a pro-Russia insurgency in its eastern regions.