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World leaders set to tackle Afghanistan's future

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
CHICAGO (AP) -- The United States and NATO leaders are insisting the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders weary of plummeting public support for the war are also using an alliance summit Sunday to show they want to move quickly away from the front lines....
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Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt....
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Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt....

Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies at 60

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60....

Strong quake kills at least 4 in northern Italy

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook northeast Italy early Sunday, killing four people, tearing off chunks of church facades and sending panicked residents into the streets. Aftershocks wreaked more havoc in the region, including knocking down a clock tower and injuring a firefighter....

Jailed Israeli president freed briefly

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A prison spokeswoman says Israel's jailed former president has been freed for a few hours to attend his son's wedding....

Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connections

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers....
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Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connections

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers....

Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connections

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers....
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Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connections

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers....

Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connections

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connections

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers....

Tropical storm Alberto forms off Carolinas' coast

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Alberto emerged off South Carolina's coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesn't officially begin until June 1....
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Yemen troops clash with al-Qaida in south; 17 dead

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Fresh clashes between al-Qaida fighters and government forces in Yemen left 17 dead on Sunday, military officials said, as the army pushed on with an offensive to regain a key town in the county's south that fell to the militants more than a year ago....

Protesters prepare for larger NATO demonstration

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
CHICAGO (AP) -- Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet....
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Son: Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing is dead

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60....

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials....

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials....

Bomb explodes near UN observers' chief in Syria

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, blowing off the front of a parked vehicle but causing no casualties....

World leaders set to tackle Afghanistan's future

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 18:19
CHICAGO (AP) -- World leaders weary of war will tackle Afghanistan's post-conflict future - from funding for security forces to upcoming elections - when the NATO summit opens Sunday....
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