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Cross-border attacks by Palestinians test Israel’s quick-retaliation policy

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JERUSALEM — A recent spate of cross-border and mortar attacks by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip — the worst in a year — is testing the resolve of Israel's...

U.S. officials see new threat in Americans training in Yemen

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WASHINGTON — U.S. officials believe that as many as three dozen Americans who converted to Islam while in prison in the United States have traveled to Yemen over the past year, possibly to be trained by al-Qaida, according to a Senate report...

Medical correspondents face delicate balance in Haiti

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NEW YORK — Some of the most dramatic television images beamed from Haiti's quake-ravaged communities have shown harried doctors frantically tending the wounded with rudimentary tools...

Ahmadinejad’s New York visit to dominate U.N. nuclear meeting

WASHINGTON — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plan to attend an international conference on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons this week in New York threatens to turn the meeting into a diplomatic confrontation between the United States and Iran over Iran'...

Israeli officials consider new probe into Gaza Strip assault

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JERUSALEM — Even as it defended its handling of last year's military offensive in the Gaza Strip...