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Saudi, Syrian Leaders Try to Avert Civil War in Lebanon

54 minutes ago |AOL News

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(July 30) -- Five years after Syrian troops were forced out of Lebanon in the wake of the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad returned to Beirut ...

WikiLeaks' Assange Strikes Back at Pentagon

1 hour 31 minutes ago |AOL News

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(July 30) -- A day after a senior Pentagon official asserted that WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands for posting classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, the site's founder blasted the Pent ...

Record Heat Wave Fans Deadly Fires in Russia

2 hours 21 minutes ago |AOL News

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(July 30) -- A record-breaking heat wave continued to send forest fires sweeping across parts of Russia today, destroying villages and leaving thousands homeless and up to 23 people dead, officials s ...

Tokyo's Oldest Man Actually Dead for 30 Years

3 hours 34 minutes ago |AOL News

(July 30) -- When Sogen Kato's 111th birthday rolled around last week, he was hailed as the oldest living man in Tokyo. But there was just one problem with the claim on that title: He'd been lying de ...

Mexican Troops Kill 'King of Crystal' Cartel Leader

4 hours 2 minutes ago |AOL News

(July 30) -- Mexican troops have killed a top drug kingpin known as the "King of Crystal," in a shootout as he tried to escape from a wealthy suburban hideout. His death is a rare victory for Preside ...

Moms Continue to Push for Hikers' Release From Iran

6 hours 16 minutes ago |AP

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PINE CITY, Minn. (AP) -- Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nea ...

Saudi, Syrian Leaders Plan Meeting Amid Tension

6 hours 50 minutes ago |AP

BEIRUT (July 30) -- The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia were heading to Beirut on Friday in an unprecedented effort to avert a crisis over expected indictments in the 2005 assassination of former ...

6 US Deaths Make July Deadliest Month of Afghan War

7 hours 5 minutes ago |AOL News

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(July 30) -- Six more U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan, making July the deadliest month for American forces in the entire 9-year-old war. NATO issued a statement earlier today say ...

Top Mexican Drug Lord Killed in Military Raid

16 hours 8 minutes ago |AP

MEXICO CITY (July 29) -- The Mexican army says one of the top three leaders of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel has been killed in a clash with soldiers. The death of Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel is the ...

Drug Lord Ignacio 'Nacho' Coronel Killed in Mexico

16 hours 20 minutes ago |AOL News Surge Desk

(July 29) -- Score one for Mexico. Reports are sketchy, but the Mexican government is said to have killed one of its most wanted drug traffickers, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, in a shootout today in Zap ...

Russian Security Agency Gets Broad Pre-emptive Powers

22 hours ago |AOL News

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(July 29) -- Russia's internal security agency today gained new powers that some critics see as echoing those of its notorious Soviet-era predecessor, the KGB. President Dmitry Medvedev signed a muc ...

Town in Shock After French Mom Admits Baby Killings

22 hours 11 minutes ago |AOL News

Thibault Vandermersch, AP

(July 29) -- A 47-year-old woman has admitted to fatally smothering eight of her newborns in what may be France's most serious case of infanticide, authorities said, and her shocked co-workers and ne ...