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Russia says it will not renew arms agreement with U.S.
Russia will not renew a decades-old agreement with Washington on
dismantling nuclear and chemical weapons when it expires next year.
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Romney Camp: Obama 'Misled American People' on Libya Attack
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign accused the Obama administration of
misleading the American people by providing "incomplete and indirect"
responses to questions regarding the terrorist attack on the U.S.
Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Russia says Turkey risked lives of passengers
Moscow accused Ankara of endangering Russian lives on Thursday after Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land.
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50 years later, Vatican II still divides
Fifty years ago Thursday, the fourth child from a family of Italian
sharecroppers convened a epochal meeting of Roman Catholic Church
leaders designed to "open the windows" of the nearly 2,000-year-old
institution and let some of the modern world's "fresh air" inside.
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Galilee int'l conference examines Holocaust studies
Holocaust educators stressed the importance of speaking about the Shoah
as a means of ensuring that such a tragedy never happens again.
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Gaza Salafists Fire Rockets into Israel
Terrorists in Gaza fired two rockets into southern Israel on Wednesday evening.
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Report Follows the Decades-Long Saga of Obama's 'Muslim Ring'
According to a news story on the respected Worldnet News Daily (WND) web
site - with an accompanying array of photos as evidence - U.S.
President Barack H. Obama has been wearing, since his days in college, a
ring on which is inscribed the Shahada, the main Muslim prayer.
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Ministry: French Official Denies Jewish Connection to the Land
The Foreign Ministry on Thursday upbraided the French Consulate General
in Jerusalem over remarks made by France's Consul General in Jerusalem.
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Mali Islamists 'buying child soldiers, imposing Sharia'
They are also buying child soldiers, paying families $600 per child,
Ivan Simonovic said after a fact-finding visit to the country.
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'EU warned PA of negative costs of UN bid'
The European Union is advising the Palestinian Authority to "be careful"
regarding its stated plan to ask the UN for non-member state observer
status at its General Assembly.