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Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he was still focused on a return to direct peace talks with Israel but looking at alternatives.

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AP - Israel’s secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for…

AP - Israel’s secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for…

AP - North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament convenes an annual session Friday expected to show solidarity and perhaps indications of the impoverished and reclusive nation’s future leadership and economy.

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AP - Mao Zedong’s grandson couldn’t have put it more simply. China’s biggest challenge? “Economic development,” he said, as the nation’s most public political meetings end with sweeping goals to…

AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged Friday to redouble the country’s stimulus program to focus on job creation, signaling that Beijing’s main worry is keeping its factories humming and…

AP - Even by Afghan standards, it was a startling find: An opium packaging workshop, buried under donkey dung and old hay in a stable that U.S. Marines turned into…