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  • Germany's national soccer team head coach Joachim Loew attends a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany , Germany, Thursday May 16, 2013. Loew announced the line-up for the trip to the USA with the friendly matches against Ecuador in Boca Raton on May 29 and versus the US team in Washington June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Nicolas Armer)

    Depleted Germany roster for U.S. friendly at RFK Stadium

    Coach Joachim Loew has called up four newcomers for Germany's friendlies against Ecuador and the United States, with the stars of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund absent because of their Champions League final.

  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Benghazi: The anatomy of a scandal; how the story of a U.S. tragedy unfolded — and then fell apart

    The tragedy of Benghazi, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, seemed a cut-and-dried story in the days after a mob attacked the State Department's mission in eastern Libya. Today, the public knows that those early administration pronouncements were false.

  • Donovan left off roster for World Cup qualifiers

    Landon Donovan was left off the 29-man U.S. roster for a training camp ahead of a trio of World Cup qualifiers next month. But American coach Jurgen Klinsmann anticipates he will rejoin the team at some unspecified point.

  • 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.

  • 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** Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, speaks Jan. 24, 2013, during a news conference with a coalition of members of Congress, mayors, law enforcement officers, gun safety organizations and other groups on Capitol Hill in Washington to introduce legislation on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. (Associated Press)

    Spain leads pack of 3-D plastic gun-making downloads

    The blueprints for a plastic gun that can be produced on a 3-D printer were downloaded 100,000 times in two days, with Spain leading the global rush to obtain the directions.

  • Bayern, Klose top weekly AP soccer poll

    Fresh off a second straight drubbing of the once-mighty Barcelona, Bayern Munich was voted the top team in the Associated Press global soccer poll for the sixth straight week.

  • A replica of the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") crosses the main entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo)

    Alleged Auschwitz death camp guard arrested in Germany

    A 93-year-old man who was deported from the United States for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.

  • ** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press)

    DIBACCO: America's reluctant response to chemical weapons

    If President Obama has been slow to respond to reports that chemical weapons have been employed in Syria, thereby crossing his "red line" and creating a "game-changer" for U.S. policy, he's not the first chief executive to procrastinate on the issue.

  • Illustration Seashore by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    EDITORIAL: A Stasi for Palm Beach

    In the bad old days when Germany was riven in two parts, Germans in the East lived in terror of the state security ministry known as the Stasi, which enlisted neighbors and colleagues as secret informants. Stasi created a spirit of distrust to be exploited by the party.

  • **FILE** Glenn Beck (Associated Press)

    Glenn Beck: Boston manhunt reminds of Nazi Germany

    Nationally known media personality Glenn Beck said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombing attacks reminded of Nazi Germany, with door-to-door searches to root out Jews during the Holocaust.

  • Bayern, Lewandowski top weekly AP soccer poll

    After dominating the first legs of their Champions League semifinals, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund lead the latest Associated Press global soccer poll.

  • **FILE** A sign limiting the purchase of baby milk formula powder hangs on the shelf in a supermarket in London on April 10, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Baby food shortage in Europe due to China demand

    Major retailers in Germany this year began limiting sales of leading brands of baby formula. Parents in Britain, the Netherlands and Hong Kong have faced similar restrictions. The reason for the sudden shortage is a quirk of globalization — one that illustrates the complexities of supply and demand in a wired world.

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    When C.P. Snow arrived to lecture at Harvard in 1960, he was riding a wave of fame that followed his talk on "The Two Cultures" at Cambridge University the year before when he pointed out that the intellectual world was becoming increasingly divided between science and the humanities.

  • Overrun Switzerland clamps down on immigrants from EU

    Switzerland agreed to limit the level of immigrants allowed from the European Union beginning this May, adding to caps that are already in place for eight other central and eastern states.

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