The trip comes as Iran faces new sanctions as well as upcoming parliamentary elections.
2012
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Help for Maine health-care consumers may fall through cracks
A Maine program that helps consumers figure out health insurance coverage options and appeal claims denials is imperiled by congressional gridlock.
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Bill Nemitz: MaineHousing failure – not the fix – will likely be focus
Gov. LePage has suggested that if he could just get his hands on MaineHousing’s purse strings — which, by law, he can’t — he could with a stroke of his pen eliminate a big chunk of the alleged $220 million shortfall.
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World Dispatches
PARIS Joan of Arc birthday tribute criticized for being insincere The father and daughter behind France’s main far-right party have taken aim at conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for what they called his insincere tribute to Joan of Arc. The nationalist National Front party of Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen has in recent years rallied around […]
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NASA fights sales of space artifacts
With the end of the shuttle program, collectors’ interest in mission items is climbing.
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With federal ban over, states gear up for online gambling
A trade group says states could collect $2 billion a year if online poker operations are taxed.
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Gabrielle Giffords getting stronger, but a long way to go
A year after a gunman killed six and injured her and 12 others, she appears driven to get back to work.
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Deported U.S. teen back home in Texas
U.S. and Colombian officials have traded blame over who was responsible for the mixup.
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Cargo drone makes debut in Afghanistan
This marks the first time that a chopper version designed for transport has been used operationally.
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Afghans accuse U.S. of abusing detainees
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan investigators accused the American military Saturday of abusing detainees at its main prison in the country, bolstering calls by President Hamid Karzai for the United States to turn over control of the facility and complicating talks about America’s future role in Afghanistan. The investigators also called for any detainee held without […]