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Reuters - While Afghan President Hamid Karzai seeks talks with Taliban leaders, Afghan and NATO-led forces have quietly tried to chip away at the lower ranks, tempting foot soldiers back…

AP - Olive tree by olive tree, Palestinian farmers and Jewish settlers are competing over the rocky hills of the West Bank, planting more of the gnarled evergreens to strengthen…

AP - The Palestinian militant Hamas group says Israeli soldiers have arrested one of its lawmakers in the West Bank.

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AP - The Iranian president says Tehran is ready to resume talks about its nuclear program with the international community.

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AP - Israeli settlers say they will slowly resume building new Jewish homes in West Bank settlements — just hours after a construction ban that helped jump-start Mideast peace talks…

Time.com - Negotiations over their fate come and go, but those Israelis who’ve made their homes in occupied territory see themselves as intractable facts on the ground

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AP - More than a hundred thousand people in the tiny West African nation of Benin have lost their savings in a Ponzi scheme run by a now-defunct company that…

AP - A passenger plane crashed Wednesday in western Congo, killing 19 people but police said there were two survivors.

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AP - Nigeria’s president says a group of West African nations will hold an emergency meeting to discuss sending troops to the troubled and impoverished nation of Guinea-Bissau.

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AP - A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad Sunday and killed eight people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to…