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China, Vietnam agree to set up hotline
China, Vietnam agree to set up hotline
China and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to set up a hotline to resolve fishing incidents in disputed South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tensions between the two ideological allies. The two countries' agriculture ministers signed the agreement in Beijing. No details were immedi

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Cyprus seeks help from creditors for troubled bank
Cyprus seeks help from creditors for troubled bank
Cyprus' president has warned the country's international creditors that its largest bank's cash reserves are running dangerously low, a problem that could undermine the country's 23 billion euro ($30.8 billion) financial rescue package. In a letter obtained by the Associated Press Wednesday, Nicos

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Fmr. TWA Flight 800 Investigators Want New Probe
Fmr. TWA Flight 800 Investigators Want New Probe
Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet. (June 19)

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Stocks edge lower as investors wait for the Fed
Stocks edge lower as investors wait for the Fed
Stocks are edging lower in early trading on Wall Street as investors hold back ahead of a policy announcement from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 17 points, or 0.1 percent, at 15,301 in the first few minutes of trading Wednesday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was d

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Obama warns EU over high youth unemployment
Obama warns EU over high youth unemployment
President Barack Obama raised the prospect Wednesday that Europe might need to adjust its economic policies to tackle high youth unemployment and make sure that some countries don't "lose a generation." Obama warned during his visit to Berlin that, while he was confident the euro area's leaders wil

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Fed Suggests Bond Purchases Could Slow
Fed Suggests Bond Purchases Could Slow
The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, but stressed that any end would be gradual and not based on specific triggers. (June 19)

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Turkish official approves 'standing man' protest
Turkish official approves 'standing man' protest
Turkey's deputy prime minister gave a nod of approval to a new form of peaceful resistance that is spreading through Turkey on Wednesday as police were questioning dozens of people rounded up in police raids. Although police dispersed pockets of protesters who set up barricades in two Turkish citie

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Egypt seen to give nod toward jihadis on Syria
Egypt seen to give nod toward jihadis on Syria
Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, Egypt's authorities took a tough line on Egyptians coming home after waging "jihad" in places like Afghanistan, Chechnya or the Balkans, fearing they would bring back extremist ideology, combat experience and a thirst for regime change. In most cases, they were imprisone

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Group decries Sri Lanka's proposed media code
Group decries Sri Lanka's proposed media code
Rights groups are criticizing a code of media ethics proposed by Sri Lanka's government, saying Wednesday that the code could have a chilling effect on free speech in the Indian Ocean island nation. New York-based Human Rights Watch said the code is "unnecessary" and infringes on the right to free

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Obama chooses lawyer as Guantanamo closure envoy
Obama chooses lawyer as Guantanamo closure envoy
President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Clifford Sloan is the pick to reopen the

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AP sources: Obama picks high-powered lawyer to be new Guantanamo closure envoy at State Dept.
AP sources: Obama picks high-powered lawyer to be new Guantanamo closure envoy at State Dept.
AP sources: Obama picks high-powered lawyer to be new Guantanamo closure envoy at State Dept.

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Syrian refugees in Egypt hit by break in ties
Syrian refugees in Egypt hit by break in ties
The minute professional diver Mohammed Ibrahim, a Syrian, heard that Egypt's president had cut relations with Syria and closed its embassy, he jumped into a bus and traveled hundreds of kilometers (miles) from a Red Sea resort city to Cairo to try to get official papers for his long-planned emigrat

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Venezuela's cardinal: Pope should urge coexistence
Venezuela's cardinal: Pope should urge coexistence
Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government's opponents, the Catholic Church's top representative in the country said Sunday. Cardinal Jorge Urosa said he expected the pontif

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Protalix signs supply deal with Brazilian govt
Protalix signs supply deal with Brazilian govt
Shares of Protalix BioTherapeutics Inc. jumped in premarket trading Wednesday after the drug developer announced a deal that requires the Brazilian government to buy at least $280 million of the company's Gaucher disease treatment. The Israeli company said an arm of the Brazilian Ministry of Health

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Afghans poised to take security lead from US, NATO
Afghans poised to take security lead from US, NATO
One of the most significant turning points in one of America's longest and costliest wars is imminent: Afghanistan's fledgling security forces are taking the lead for security nationwide, bringing the moment of truth on the question of whether they are ready to fight an insurgency that remains resi

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Hard-line Egypt cleric sentenced for burning Bible
Hard-line Egypt cleric sentenced for burning Bible
A hard-line Muslim cleric received an 11-year suspended sentence Sunday for tearing up and burning a Bible, Egypt's official news agency said. Cairo's Nasr City court sentenced Ahmed Abdullah and his son was given a suspended sentence of eight years over the same incident, the Middle East News Agen

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AP Analysis: Iran president may help shield rulers
AP Analysis: Iran president may help shield rulers
For a lesson in what Hasan Rowhani's reformist-backed presidency could mean for Iran, a promise Sunday by the ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard to cooperate with him is a good guide. Like the rest of Iran's ruling Islamic establishment, the Guard, which has kept a tight lid on any hints of opposit

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Graham: Without immigration, GOP to fail in 2016
Graham: Without immigration, GOP to fail in 2016
Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who helped write a bipartisan immigration bill under debate in the S

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Thailand cuts rice subsidy price after $4.4B loss
Thailand cuts rice subsidy price after $4.4B loss
Thailand will pay farmers 20 percent less for rice to stem losses from a much-criticized subsidy program that dislodged the country from its spot as the world's No. 1 exporter of the grain, a government minister said Wednesday. Cabinet minister Warathep Rattanakorn said the government will pay 12,0

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Cheney says his health 'nothing short of miracle'
Cheney says his health 'nothing short of miracle'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says his health is "nothing short of a miracle." The heart transplant recipient says he now wakes up each morning "with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day I never expected to see." Cheney tells "Fox News Sunday" that he was "near death" when h

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