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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seen during a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo just outside Moscow, Friday, March 19, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
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Russia nuclear treaty likely in April, Clinton says
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:38 a.m.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that the United States and Russia may sign a new nuclear-arms-reduction agreement in early April, after a previous treaty expired in December.
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Rome to display returned artifacts
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:37 a.m.
A collection of ancient Greek silverware dating to the third century B.C. is going on display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York, officials said Friday.
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Bolivians: Guevara capturer in on plot
They tie ex-general to encrypted e-mail
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:36 a.m.
The retired general who captured legendary revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara was summoned Friday by Bolivian authorities investigating a purported plot against President Evo Morales.
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After fall, Abbas resting sore back
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:33 a.m.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that doctors ordered him to rest after a fall left him with a bruised back.
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Clinton: Israel talk ‘productive’
U.S. to resume role in Mideast peace effort after housing standoff
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:32 a.m.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that she had received a “useful and productive ” response from Israel after a tense standoff over a housing project threatened to derail plans for Middle East peace talks.
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Italian town marks grim WWII clash
Outgunned Ranger unit decimated
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:31 a.m.
For American forces fighting their way north to Rome, it was the site of a heroic but hopeless stand, where only eight men out of two Ranger battalions escaped German troops.
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Arrests halt U.N.-Taliban contacts
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:29 a.m.
The arrests of top Taliban figures in Pakistan abruptly halted secret U.N. contacts with the insurgency as the efforts were gathering momentum, the U.N.’s former envoy to Afghanistan said Friday.
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Heavy rains engulf Haiti’s tent cities
Posted: March 20, 2010 2:18 a.m.
Heavy rains swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands displaced by Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake.
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Diplomats urge resumption of Mideast talks
Posted: March 19, 2010 11:19 a.m.
Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months. They reiterated their condemnation of Israel’s latest move to add Jewish housing in disputed east Jerusalem but did not escalate criticism of the Jewish state.
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Clinton says agreement with Russia near on nukes
Posted: March 19, 2010 8:44 a.m.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are “on the brink” of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
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Met Anne Frank at camp, Holocaust survivor maintains
Posted: March 19, 2010 4:50 a.m.
A Holocaust survivor who says she met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration camp is standing by her story in the face of skepticism from historians, filmmakers and a childhood friend of the diarist.
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Sudan, 2nd group of rebels sign truce
Posted: March 19, 2010 4:39 a.m.
Sudan’s government and a collection of Darfur rebel groups signed a cease-fire Thursday — the second such deal in less than a month with a key rebel faction — opening the way for political negotiations ahead of a full peace agreement.
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Afghanistan taking bigger role, U.N. council hears
Posted: March 19, 2010 4:22 a.m.
Afghanistan’s government is taking greater responsibility for the nation’s security and economic development, moves intended to allow U.S. and other foreign forces to withdraw, United Nations envoys and officials said.
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Two space sojourners home safe
Posted: March 19, 2010 4:22 a.m.
Astronauts from the United States and Russia landed safely in northern Kazakhstan’s chilly steppes Thursday after spending almost six months on the international space station.
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Review details U.N. contract schemes
Posted: March 19, 2010 4:13 a.m.
The deal looked simple enough: U.S. military-equipment suppliers bribed an African defense minister’s salesmen to secure part of a $15 million gig to outfit a presidential guard.
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