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May 30, 2013, 4:06 pm
By
Ben Goad
The administration issued orders designed to promote free speech and punish those responsible for silencing Iran's people.
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May 30, 2013, 3:59 pm
By
Jeremy Herb
A Lebanon paper reported Thursday that McCain took a photo with two men alleged to have kidnapped 11 pilgrims.
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May 30, 2013, 3:07 pm
By
Pete Kasperowicz
Reports earlier this year suggested State might remove Cuba, marking a policy shift under Secretary Kerry.
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May 30, 2013, 1:47 pm
By
Justin Sink
U.S. intervention in Syria’s civil war “could actually help the extremists,” according to the senator.
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May 30, 2013, 12:58 pm
By
Carlo Muñoz
Moscow is following through on deliveries of advanced missile systems to Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, raising concerns the country's three-year civil war could bubble over into a region-wide conflict.
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May 30, 2013, 11:54 am
By
Erik Wasson
American officials and beef producers are reveling in a new safety designation for U.S. cattle and see the change as particularly relevant to ongoing Transpacific trade negotiations. On Wednesday, the Paris-based World Animal Health Organization (OIE) voted to designated the U.S. has having a “negligible risk” for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also know as mad cow disease. This is an upgrade from “controlled risk” status.
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May 30, 2013, 11:04 am
By
Zack Colman
A United Nations panel recommended Thursday that large firms report their environmental impact along with earnings in an effort to reduce poverty and boost economic growth by 2030.
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May 30, 2013, 9:01 am
By
Pete Kasperowicz
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) on Wednesday said he and other House members have received an "overwhelmingly positive" reception this week in Russia, where they are meeting with officials in an effort to increase bilateral cooperation to fight terrorism.
"Our reception has been overwhelmingly positive," Rohrabacher said in a statement released Wednesday evening. "It is clear the Cold War is over. It's time to get rid of the attitudes left over from the Cold War."
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May 30, 2013, 9:00 am
By
American Task Force for Lebanon Director George Cody
Guest Commentary “Welcome to hell,” our escort exclaimed as we arrived on April 18 in Tel Abyad, a Syrian refugee “makeshift settlement” in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Tel Abyad was the second makeshift settlement we were taken to see by UNICEF and SAWA Group, a Lebanese NGO. The first was Ali Nahri, also in the Bekaa. The Bekaa has about 65 such settlements and the Akkar region in Lebanon’s north has a similar number. The euphemism “makeshift settlement” is used to respect the sensibilities of the Lebanese, for whom camp is a loaded word and reminiscent of the 65-year sojourn of the Palestinian refugees and their 12 camps in Lebanon. The makeshift settlements that we saw were camps, although without the permanent concrete structures of the Palestinian camps.
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May 29, 2013, 5:45 pm
By
Julian Pecquet
The State Department on Wednesday lambasted Tunisia for giving suspended sentences to 20 people convicted of attacking the U.S. embassy and burning an American school in Tunis. Four attackers were killed and dozens were injured in the Sept. 14, 2012 attack, which was fueled by an anti-Islam film made in the United States that sparked violence in more than a dozen Muslim countries. The film may also have been a factor in the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, although the administration has ruled out that there was a peaceful demonstration prior to the armed attack. “We are concerned about the suspended sentences. We've long called for a more extensive investigation into this particular case and have not been satisfied to date with what we've seen,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday. “It was not our preferred outcome here.”
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