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Iran's Khamenei rejects direct talks with U.S. on nuclear program
WASHINGTON -- Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the U.S. offer of direct talks on his country’s disputed nuclear program, deepening doubts about the prospects that Tehran’s upcoming discussions with six world powers over...
Tags: Tehran (Iran), Iran, Barack Obama, Nuclear Policy, Kazakhstan
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U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration slapped new sanctions on Iran’s state broadcasting agency and Internet-policing agencies Wednesday as economic sanctions enacted last summer also took effect. The actions are part of an effort to force the...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Iran, Nuclear Policy, Petroleum Industry, Islam
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Iran to resume talks with six powers on nuclear program
Six world powers and Iran announced they will resume talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear program Feb. 26 in Kazakhstan, after three months of gridlock over arrangements for a new meeting. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday that...
Tags: European Union, Tehran (Iran), Iran, Nuclear Policy, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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Iran's leader visits Cairo, easing long estrangement
CAIRO -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived to a red-carpet welcome and a kiss on the cheek by Egypt's new Islamist leader in a historic trip to strengthen relations between the two nations after decades of estrangement and suspicion. Iran...
Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Civil Rights
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Better spies, not more
The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert "collectors" — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with this...
Tags: Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Iraq, Espionage and Intelligence, Julia Child
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Final vote tally in Israel gives right slight edge
JERUSALEM – A final tally released Thursday of votes from this week's parliamentary election in Israel broke the virtual tie between rival ideological factions, giving the right-wing bloc, including religious parties, 61 seats in the Knesset,...
Tags: West Bank, Israel, Likud, Elections, Human Rights
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Window of opportunity may open in U.S.-Iran nuclear standoff
A multi-front campaign to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon has been stalled for months by the distractions of a U.S. presidential campaign, Tehran’s stop-and-go negotiating tactics and its role in deadly clashes in Syria and Gaza....
Tags: European Union, Nuclear Policy, Barack Obama, Petroleum Industry, Nuclear Power
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Renew the Mideast peace process? Not now
Israelis cynically refer to the repeated rounds of violence with the Arabs as "happiness," as in "it's happy today." Before the cease-fire, as Hamas fired 1,000 rockets at Israel, it was indeed very "happy." A diplomatic push put an end to the fighting,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Likud, Mahmoud Abbas
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Taking a hammer to 'leaks'
Last week, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) placed a hold on the 2013 Intelligence Authorization Act, expressing legitimate concerns about provisions designed to plug leaks of classified information. Wyden rightly asked his colleagues to revisit provisions that...
Tags: Ron Wyden, Iran, Dianne Feinstein, Employees, News Media
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Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, YouTube
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'Smaller piece of the pie' for workers worldwide, report says
Workers are getting a smaller piece of the pie in booming China and economically stressed Europe alike, the United Nations labor agency said Friday, chalking up the trend to technological strides, globalization and the weakening muscle of labor unions....
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Productivity, Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), Protest, United Nations
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Obama's quest for greatness
WASHINGTON -- The "legacy thing" may be harder than Barack Obama imagines. Beginning his second term, Obama has a focused, though unstated, agenda: to achieve presidential greatness in the eyes of historians and Americans. In this, he will almost...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Lyndon B. Johnson, Health Insurance Cost
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