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  • ** FILE ** A European Union flag waves in the wind in front of the Chancellery in Berlin on Oct. 12, 2012.

    European Union poised to add Hezbollah to terror list

    The European Union, under pressure from the international community and on the heels of a formal request from Britain, is poised to add Hezbollah to its list of terror groups.

  • ** FILE ** British Prime Minister David Cameron (Associated Press)

    Gay marriage in Britain tears apart conservatives

    British Prime Minister David Cameron may rue the day he supported gay marriage.

  • Poultry farmer Barry Jones gathers eggs from some of his 700 hens in Franksville, Wis., that he sells at farmers markets during the summer.

    COGGIN: Cracking Big Egg

    There's a new dish that's been crafted in several Hill offices: the Congressional Omelet. It's a fairly simple recipe — scramble a bunch of eggs and mix them with a hefty helping of bureaucratic molasses.

  • Blast at Spain bomb disposal base kills 3 soldiers

    Three soldiers at an army bomb disposal unit in southern Spain were killed Monday when a blast rocked the facility, the country’s defense ministry said.

  • Greece warns of 'vicious cycle of inequality' in EU

    A top Greek official on Wednesday warned of a "widening gap" in the eurozone that separates financially stable countries such as Germany from their southern European partners that are struggling to keep up.

  • Dietz Werland works on the assembly line at the Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind., on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/A.J. Mast)

    U.S. factory output falls 0.4 percent in April

    U.S. manufacturers cut back on production in April as auto companies cranked out fewer cars, factories made fewer consumer goods and most other industries reduced output. The weakness suggests economic growth may be slowing this spring.

  • Illustration by Nancy Ohanian

    EDITORIAL: Death of the euro

    Our European cousins are just now figuring out that ditching their marks, francs, liras and drachmas to join the eurozone may not have been such a hot idea after all.

  • ** FILE ** Cuban ladies smoke the country's famous cigars. (AP Photo)

    Cuba launches challenge to Australian tobacco laws at WTO

    Cuba has filed its first legal challenge with the World Trade Organization, joining the fight against Australia's tough tobacco packaging laws, the Geneva-based trade body announced Monday.

  • Jabir

    Embassy Row: Grave situation

    A leading member of Congress is accusing the Iraqi government of failing to protect unarmed Iranian dissidents from terrorist attacks in a refugee camp near Baghdad.

  • A woman is comforted as she grieves after identifying the body of her daughter, a victim of the garment factory collapse, on Sunday, May 5, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

    Death toll tops 600 in Bangladesh building collapse

    More than 600 bodies have been recovered from the garment-factory building that collapsed well over a week ago, police said Sunday as the grim recovery work continued in one of the worst industrial accidents ever.

  • Protesters for abortion rights hold a vigil for Savita Halappanavar outside Ireland's government headquarters in Dublin on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)

    Ireland publishes bill on life-saving abortions

    Ireland unveiled a long-awaited bill Wednesday that lays down new rules governing when life-saving abortions can be performed, a point of potentially lethal confusion for women in a country that outlaws terminations.

  • EDITORIAL: Bugged about bees

    Beware an environmental activist bearing a solution. Not so long ago, the government ordered Big Oil to pump methyl tert-butyl ether, or MTBE, into gasoline tanks because the stuff would make the air sparkle. Then someone remembered that MTBE seeps into groundwater and causes cancer.

  • Bugged about bees

    Beware an environmental activist bearing a solution. Not so long ago, the government ordered Big Oil to pump methyl tert-butyl ether, or MTBE, into gasoline tanks because the stuff would make the air sparkle. Then someone remembered that MTBE seeps into groundwater and causes cancer. Not so good. Now the government is spending billions to clean up the mess and the do-gooders have moved on to save the bees by banning pesticides.

  • Dutch Queen Beatrix (left) signs the Act of Abdication in favor of her son Prince Willem-Alexander (center), who became the first Dutch king in more than a century, in the Mozeszaal, or Moses Hall, of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. With them is Princess Maxima, Willem-Alexander's wife, who became queen. (AP Photo/Bart Maat, Pool)

    Dutch Queen Beatrix abdicates; son Willem-Alexander becomes king

    Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch king in more than a century Tuesday and pledged to use his ceremonial position as head of state to help steer his country through uncertain economic times.

  • ** FILE ** The Google logo is displayed in the company's New York office in December 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

    Google agrees to change search display in Europe

    Google has agreed to change how it displays search results in Europe — including a better labeling of its promoted content and displaying links to competitors — to appease concerns it might be abusing its dominant market position, the European Union's antitrust body said Thursday.

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