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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)

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  • An Israeli tank is loaded onto a truck near the Quneitra crossing with Syria, Thursday, June 6, 2013. Syrian rebels on Thursday captured a crossing point along a cease-fire line with Israel in the contested Golan Heights, a development that could deepen Israeli concerns over the growing role of Islamic radicals in the civil war near its northern frontier.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

    Austria pulls out of peacekeeping, as Syrian fight erupts at Israel's door

    A Filipino peacekeeper was injured in a Thursday skirmish that ignited between Syrian rebel and government fighters in a small border town near Israel, prompting Austria to withdraw its troops from the UNDOF.

  • Austrian golfer Wiesberger eyes US Open start

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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Europe'

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  • During a news conference with Chinese Gen. Fang Fenghui, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said "We will build and recognize the historic alliances, and there will be points when that creates friction."`

    Inside the Ring: Targeting N. Korea's funds

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  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz uranium-enrichment facility about 200 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in April 2008. (Associated Press)

    Diplomats: Iran ups nuke technology

    Technicians upgrading Iran's main uranium enrichment facility have tripled their installations of high-tech machines that could be used in a nuclear weapons program to more than 600 in the past three months, diplomats said Wednesday.

  • ** FILE ** The euro symbol sits atop a statue at the European Parliament in Brussels. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

    European lawmakers vote to cap bankers' bonuses

    The European Parliament, the elected legislative body of the European Union, voted on Tuesday in favor of a new law that caps bankers' bonuses and implements other financial-sector reforms.

  • Shale oil find fuels boom in U.S. business

    To John LaRue, the renaissance in U.S. manufacturing is no dream. It's already here.

  • Illustration: Margaret Thatcher

    EDITORIAL: A leader with true grit

    Just when America and the West needed a shot of testosterone, with Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard settling in to swallow Kuwait's oil, Margaret Thatcher stepped up with a word from the warrior queen. "Don't go wobbly on us, George," she told President George H.W. Bush. He didn't, and the West won.

  • Nancy Ohanian

    KUHNER: Is the sky falling?

    A Serbian nationalist assassinated Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. What should have been a local conflict in the Balkans triggered the World War I. The end result was millions dead, the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, and the subsequent rise of fascism and communism. An outbreak of hostilities on the Korean Peninsula today could lead to a similar, disastrous fate — World War III.

  • Gilbert Kraus

    KELLNER: Couple acted to save Jews when government dithered

    At the end of March, a census taken by Israel's Interior Ministry reported that the Jewish population in the nation stood at 6 million, out of a total population of 8 million. The vast majority of the remainder are Arabs, with another 350,000 non-Arab Christians, press reports indicated.

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  • American gets back art taken by Nazis during WWII

    Tom Selldorff was 6 years old when he saw his grandfather's prized art collection for the last time in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands.

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