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March 24, 2013

China checks more N.Korea cargo

BEIJING – China is trying to punish ally North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests, stepping up inspections of North Korean-bound cargo. The move appears to be a calculated effort to send a message of Chinese pique without further provoking a testy Pyongyang government. Freight handlers and trading companies at ports and cities located […]
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March 24, 2013

Chicago mayor defends school closings

CHICAGO – Mayor Rahm Emanuel responded Saturday to widespread criticism of his plan to close 54 Chicago Public Schools, saying he wasn’t interested in doing what was politically easy and that the pain of the closings doesn’t compare to the anguish of “trapping” kids in failing schools. “If we don’t make these changes, we haven’t […]
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March 24, 2013

Netanyahu: Syrian crisis motivation for apology

The premier says Israel and Turkey, which border Syria, must communicate with each other.
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March 24, 2013

World Dispatches

NICOSIA, Cyprus Conflicting information seeps from negotiations Cyprus officials and international representatives were caught up in tortuous negotiations late into the night Saturday as they sought to forge a plan to raise the money the island nation needs to qualify for a bailout package. Failure would mean Cyprus could declare bankruptcy in just three days […]
Published
March 23, 2013

Holder averts furloughs of federal prison staff

But the attorney general says the move does not resolve issues next year.

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Published
March 23, 2013

Spending plan squeaks through Senate

The $3.7 trillion budget, approved after 20 hours of votes and debate, calls for $1 trillion in tax hikes.
Published
March 23, 2013

Bodybuilding promoter Joe Weider dies at age 93

Weider was a mentor to numerous bodybuilders including the young Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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March 23, 2013

Chinua Achebe, 82, internationally acclaimed author

NEW YORK – The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: “Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond,” Chinua Achebe wrote in “Things Fall Apart.” Africans, the Nigerian author announced more than 50 years ago, had their own history, their own celebrities and reputations. […]
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March 23, 2013

After deadly Brazil club fire, charges sought against 16

SAO PAULO – Criminal charges are being sought against 16 people in connection with the nightclub fire that killed 241 people in southern Brazil earlier this year, police said Friday. Inspector Marcelo Arigony told a news conference that the mayor and fire chief of Santa Maria, the city where the fire occurred, could also be […]
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March 23, 2013

Netanyahu apologizes to Turkey in flotilla incident

JERUSALEM – Israel and Turkey agreed to restore full diplomatic relations on Friday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized in a phone call for a deadly naval raid against a Gaza-bound international flotilla in a dramatic turnaround partly brokered by President Barack Obama. Joint interests between the two countries, including fears that the Syrian civil […]