SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) — Israeli President Shimon Peres says it is possible for Israelis and Palestinians to overcome differences and skepticism over peacemaking.
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Trailblazing Israeli electric car company to fold
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s trailblazing electric car company Better Place says it has reached the end of the road.
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Car bomb, other attacks kill 5 in Iraqi city
BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a car bomb has hit a patrol in Mosul, one of three attacks in the northern Iraqi city that left five dead.
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Obama touring Oklahoma tornado response
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will tour the damage from the massive tornado that devastated the Oklahoma City area.
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Suspected Indian Maoist rebels kill 19 in Congress convoy ambush
By Devidutta Tripathy NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Suspected Maoist rebels killed at least 19 people when they ambushed a convoy carrying regional leaders from India’s ruling Congress party in dense forest on Saturday, officials said, one of the deadliest such attacks in recent years. The rebels felled trees to block the 20-car convoy in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh and then detonated a landmine and raked the vehicles with gunfire, Indian media reported. …
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Insight: In West Bank shadows, repressed Hamas breathes on
By Noah Browning and Ali Sawafta DURA, West Bank (Reuters) – In his sparse village home adorned only with framed verses from the Quran, Mohammed Ghannam opens his shirt, pointing silently to his bruised chest. Ghannam, 44, whose job was to deliver the call to prayer in Dura's local mosque, said plainclothes security forces from the Palestinian Authority (PA) detained him last month for belonging to the Islamist movement Hamas and beat him mute. “They didn't ask me any questions, just punched me hard in the face and the chest,” he wrote limply on a notepad. …
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Insight: Nigeria's "war on terror" wins tentative support
By Joe Brock MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nuradin Mohammed used to resent and fear the troops who swept past his fish stall in this northeast Nigerian city on the trail of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram. Now, for the first time, he thinks they may be on his side. “We are pleased the president has finally recognized our peril and we pray his plan works,” Mohammed said, frying fish by the roadside as a crowd of young children looked on hungrily and trucks packed with troops rumbled past. …
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Seen and heard in Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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Kerry meets with runners from Boston Marathon
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon says he is returning his winner's medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the terrorist bombings near the finish line of one of the world's top running events.
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Iran fields 'massive' number of missile launchers
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a “massive” number of new long-range missile launchers.
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