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Netanyahu asked to form next Israeli government
Netanyahu asked to form next Israeli government
Israel's president asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday to form the next government, and Netanyahu pledged that his new administration will be committed to advancing peace talks with the Palestinians. Israeli President Shimon Peres formally requested Netanyahu to build a governing co

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Peru seeks to save a little fish with big impact
Peru seeks to save a little fish with big impact
The ocean off Peru boasts the world's richest fishing grounds, but Taurino Querevalu is returning to port empty again after a hunt for Peruvian anchovy, cursing his empty nets and an increasingly stingy sea. A little more than a decade ago, Querevalu's 8-ton wooden boat rarely returned with an empt

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Conservatives make gun issue new rallying cry
Conservatives make gun issue new rallying cry
An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but guns are the new rallying cry that conservative activists from New Hampshire to Colorado have seized on for the tea party movement. Tea party leaders say the focus on blocking new gun control laws has sprung up with little c

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Analyst says health care investors view long-term
Analyst says health care investors view long-term
Health care service providers likely saw weak demand in the final quarter of 2012, but that may have limited impact on their shares. Investors are focused on longer-term gains from the national health care overhaul, according to a Jefferies analyst. Pharmacy benefits managers, doctor groups, hospita

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Cairo's musical heart, Mohammed Ali Street, fades
Cairo's musical heart, Mohammed Ali Street, fades
During its heyday, it was famed as the lively and romantic heart of Arabic music — a Cairo street modeled after Paris' boulevards, home to musicians, belly-dancers and instrument makers. But Mohammed Ali Street is fading. It had already been in decline for years as a music center. Now the crunch

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Immigration bill splits GOP on national-local line
Immigration bill splits GOP on national-local line
The immigration debate is threatening to split the Republican Party, pitting those who focus mainly on presidential elections against those who care mostly about congressional races. Strategists say that if Republicans are to win presidential elections, which they've been losing lately, partly beca

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PM says Syrian-style revolt impossible in Iraq
PM says Syrian-style revolt impossible in Iraq
Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that a Syrian-style revolt against the government "will not happen" in his country, despite mounting street protests by minority Sunnis against his Shiite-led rule. In Syria, President Bashar Assad, a follower of a Shiite offshoot of Islam, is battling a nearly 2

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Sihanouk: Cambodia's last true king
Sihanouk: Cambodia's last true king
When the flames at the cremation ground are quenched and Cambodia's former monarch Norodom Sihanouk's ashes scattered on Phnom Penh's riverfront, the mighty Mekong River may well carry away the country's last true king, a towering figure in a procession of more than 100 monarchs stretching back 2,0

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Authors try to separate fact, fiction on obesity
Authors try to separate fact, fiction on obesity
Fact or fiction? Sex burns a lot of calories. Snacking or skipping breakfast is bad. School gym classes make a big difference in kids' weight. All are myths or at least presumptions that may not be true, say researchers who reviewed the science behind some widely held obesity beliefs and found it la

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Freedom brings new challenges for Myanmar writers
Freedom brings new challenges for Myanmar writers
Poet Saw Wai parked himself on the lawn, unfurled a map of Myanmar with a blob of blood-red paint dripping down from a spot up north and invited people to make poetry with him. "He's calling for more trouble," said a passerby. What the message lacked in subtlety it made up for in brazenness. Govern

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Crime casts shadow over Philippines image makeover
Crime casts shadow over Philippines image makeover
Even by the usual standards in the Philippines, where crime is an accepted part of life, the brazen evening robbery of a jewelry store in one of the world's largest malls shocked residents of Manila. Shoppers at the SM Megamall, which attracts up to a million people a day, were forced to duck for c

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Ahead of the Bell: Analyst expects more HCA growth
Ahead of the Bell: Analyst expects more HCA growth
Shares of HCA Holdings Inc. have already climbed about 27 percent this year, and that momentum should continue as investors think about health care overhaul coverage expansion that will bring more insured patients to the hospital operator, according to a Jefferies analyst. The prospect of more patie

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Snapshots of Sandy: Group restores victims' photos
Snapshots of Sandy: Group restores victims' photos
Of all the images of Superstorm Sandy's destruction, the ones that linger for Florence Catania are the torn, stained pictures that hung on her walls. Her mother's decades-old wedding portrait, her own eighth-grade graduation photo, a snapshot that captured her mom on a carefree teenage day, all dam

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Harvard: Dozens disciplined over exam cheating
Harvard: Dozens disciplined over exam cheating
Harvard University said Friday it issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students who were forced to withdraw from school for a period of time in a cheating scandal that involved the final exam in a class on Congress, drawing criticism from a high-profile alumnus. The school implicated

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Mali jihadists in custody say tortured by military
Mali jihadists in custody say tortured by military
Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding. The three are being held in an earthen cell in what remains of the military camp in the town, which was freed this week by Fre

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At palace, Egypt protesters, police clash
At palace, Egypt protesters, police clash
Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time.

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Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard in what the White House described as a terrorist attack. Washington immediately warned Americans to stay away from all U.S. diplo

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Militants attack Pakistani army camp; 6 killed
Militants attack Pakistani army camp; 6 killed
Militants attacked an army camp in northwestern Pakistan with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades before dawn on Saturday, killing six members of the security forces, officials said. The attack followed a suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque elsewhere in the northwest on Friday tha

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Healthier schools: Goodbye candy and greasy snacks
Healthier schools: Goodbye candy and greasy snacks
Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful, a change that would ban the sale of almost all candy, high-calorie sports drinks and greasy foods on

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Report: US job market looks surprisingly strong
Report: US job market looks surprisingly strong
The U.S. job market is proving surprisingly strong and raising hopes that the economy will be resilient enough this year to withstand a budget standoff in Washington and potentially deep cuts in federal spending. Employers added 157,000 jobs last month, and hiring turned out to be healthier than pr

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