TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting that Iraqi President Fouad Massoum has arrived in Tehran for a two-day visit, his first since taking office last year. The Tuesday report said Massoum will meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and other senior officials to discuss a range …
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s military says its warplanes have pounded militant hideouts in a troubled tribal region along the Afghan border, killing at least 15 suspected militants. In a statement released Friday, the military says the airstrikes were carried out the night before in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan. The …
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PARIS – The French Defense Ministry says troops from France and Niger killed three armed combattants and detained three others who tried to force their way through a checkpoint near the Libyan border. The ministry said Monday that the clash happened Thursday in the Salvador pass region near Manama, Niger, …
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Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. A solution to the Iraq mess, that is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. Former ReaganNational Security Adviser Robert McFarlane (search)says that President Bush should persuade PresidentPutin (search)of Russia to help us out in Iraq. That simple concept could …
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NORFOLK, Va. – The owner of a small airplane that crashed early Wednesday into a botanical garden in Virginia, killing three people, says the flight originated in Key West, Florida. James Beauchamp of Corapeake, North Carolina, says the 1975 Mooney aircraft was piloted by a friend, Michael Buxton of Portsmouth, …
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ALBION, Pa. – Inmates and staff at a northwestern Pennsylvania prison are using portable toilets and trucked in water after a leak drained the facility of more than 3 million gallons. Water supplies to the State Correctional Institution at Albion have been cut off since a leak was discovered Sunday …
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MILWAUKEE – An Ohio cheesemaker won the United States Championship Cheese with a 200-pound Swiss wheel. Guggisberg Cheese in Millersburg, Ohio, beat out 1,892 entries from 28 states. Out of a possible 100 points, the Swiss wheel scored 98.496 in the final round of judging Thursday. First runner-up was a …
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HONOLULU – A supervisor at the Veterans Administration office in Honolulu was manipulating data to make it look like the agency was processing veterans’ benefits claims faster than they actually were, according to a new report by the VA Office of Inspector General. The data manipulation happened last year when …
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ST. LOUIS – Pornographic magazine publisher Larry Flynt is persevering in his legal fight to publicize details about Missouri’s execution methods. This follows the November 2013 execution of the white supremacist gunman who left him paralyzed. A federal district court judge denied Flynt’s attempt to intervene in a 2013 lawsuit …
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MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Scott Walker is following through on his campaign promise to require drug testing for public aid recipients in Wisconsin and limiting how long they can receive benefits. The potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate on Thursday announced more details about those plans that he first proposed during …
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