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Gadhafi's children likely violated UN travel ban

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:17:36 -0400

UNITED NATIONS - A son and daughter of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi moved from Algeria to Oman in apparent violation of a U.N. travel ban, the committee monitoring U.N. sanctions against Libya said Tuesday.

Talk of no-fly zone in Syria recalls Iraq effort

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:45:43 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria's civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America's military wades into Middle East conflicts.

AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EDT<<

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:08:46 -0400

As White House weighs no-fly zone in Syria, experience in skies over Iraq may offer insight

A look at Turkey and its widespread protests

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:19:54 -0400

ISTANBUL - Turkey's Islamic-led government is facing its biggest protests in years as demonstrators and police clashed Tuesday for the 12th straight day. Here's a look behind the scenes:

Obama nominates Meyer for federal judge in Conn.

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:32:56 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Quinnipiac University law professor Jeffrey Meyer, a former federal prosecutor who helped investigate the United Nations' oil-for-food program scandal in Iraq, was nominated Friday by President Barack Obama to serve as a federal judge.

UK, French claims put Obama in tough spot on Syria

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:54:04 -0400

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is facing a new quandary from a pair of assertive allies, France and Britain, that suggest his stated "red line" for more forceful U.S. action in the Syrian civil war has been crossed with solid evidence of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime.

France, Britain confirm use of sarin gas in Syria

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:19:33 -0400

PARIS - France said Tuesday it has confirmed that the nerve gas sarin was used "multiple times and in a localized way" in Syria, including at least once by the regime. It was the most specific claim by any Western power about chemical weapons attacks in the 27-month-old conflict.

Schram: Scandal chatter drowns out best and worst news

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:48:23 -0400

By MARTIN SCHRAM - Like yapping terriers doggedly chasing the water stream of a lawn sprinkler as it spins 'round and 'round but never really goes anywhere, the chattering heads on nonstop cable news are still chasing tirelessly after anything new to say about three old miniscandals.

Brash Iran campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:24:20 -0400

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls to hard-line clerics.

RedBlue: Is it time to end the war on terror?

Thu, 30 May 2013 15:47:22 -0400

By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS - President Barack Obama last week spoke at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., laying out his justification for such War on Terror tactics such as the use of drone assassinations, but also calling for the war to be wrapped up.

FACT CHECK: Kerry dishes some iffy claims abroad

Mon, 27 May 2013 03:13:26 -0400

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry straddled the diplomatic boundary this weekend between presenting the best face of America and a misleading one.

Cyr: In Syria, poison-gas accusations raise stakes

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:50:45 -0400

By ARTHUR I. CYR - The brutal continuing civil war in Syria now includes allegations that the Assad regime has used poison gas. Gas employed in war presents an especially horrifying specter, which in turn risks raising the stakes for both sides.

UN nuke agency's Iran probe driven by US-led intel

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:30:02 -0400

VIENNA - The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community.