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Vast forest fires in Indonesia spawn ecological disaster
KAMPAR, Indonesia — For farmer Achmad Rusli, it was a season of smoke: Ten weeks without sunlight for…
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Western US hit with blast of winter weather
LOS ANGELES — A wintry blast of air brought blizzard-like conditions Monday to parts of the West after…
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Refugee quandary: Immigrant legacy versus 9/11-era fears
WASHINGTON — The Paris attacks are rapidly weakening U.S. support for bringing in thousands more Syrian refugees, as…
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Wary governors halt, question plan to accept Syrian refugees
DETROIT (AP) — Several U.S. governors are threatening to halt efforts to allow Syrian refugees into their states…
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Paris unites in solidarity, then scatters in panic
PARIS — Parisians banded together Sunday in spontaneous celebrations of life in defiance of the attacks — but…
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Syrian refugee policy takes focus in US 2016 politics
WASHINGTON — The bloody attacks in Paris are putting the Syrian refugee crisis at center stage in U.S.…
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After Paris attacks, fugitive slipped through dragnet
PARIS — Hours after the synchronized attacks that terrorized Paris, French police questioned and released the suspect who…
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Paris attacks signal move toward more global IS strategy
BAGHDAD — As the deadly attacks in Paris made horrifically clear, the Islamic State group is determined to…
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Disagreements threaten uneasy truce between tribes, Maine
PLEASANT POINT, Maine — Eighty-one years after a neglected tribal water supply caused a devastating outbreak of typhoid…
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Future uncertain for rare white deer at weapons site
ROMULUS, N.Y. — Hundreds of ghostly white deer roaming among overgrown munitions bunkers at a sprawling former Army…
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Eiffel Tower goes dark as France mourns
PARIS — The Eiffel Tower stood dark in a symbol of mourning Saturday night as France struggled to…
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Hospital raid video gives rare look at murky Israeli unit
JERUSALEM — Security camera footage of a deadly Israeli arrest raid in a West Bank hospital on Thursday…
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Army captain awarded Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON — An Army captain who shoved a suicide bomber to the ground and away from his security…
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Black students complain of casual racism
BOSTON — It’s not always the slurs and the other out-and-out acts of racism. It’s the casual, everyday…
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Backlash over Mormon LGBT rule spreads among faithful
SALT LAKE CITY — New Mormon church rules targeting gay members and their children have triggered a firestorm…
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From Australia to Zambia, slowing China economy causes pain
China’s economic troubles have dropped on the doorstep of a sun-weathered house at 18 Edgar St. in Port…
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US troops didn’t have eyes on Afghan hospital before attack
WASHINGTON — Immediately after the U.S. killed at least 30 people in a devastating airstrike on a charity…
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Thousands of Afghans march, demand justice for slain Shiites
KABUL, Afghanistan — Anger and frustration over the brutal killings of seven members of Afghanistan’s minority Hazaras spilled…
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Indonesia uses trained elephants to control forest fires
SIAK, Indonesia — Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol. Officials in Indonesia are using…
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Veterans Day around the United States
Ninety-seven years ago, an armistice ended World War I, which was then the greatest conflict the world had…