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By JODI RUDOREN 8:46 PM ET
TEL AVIV — Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, said on Wednesday that Israel should consider imposing the borders of a future Palestinian state, bypassing a stagnant peace process.
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By PETER BAKER 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — President Obama is loath to engage in new military actions, but with each passing incident, the scale of the crisis in Syria grows.
By MARLISE SIMONS and J. DAVID GOODMAN 48 minutes ago
LEIDSCHENDAM, the Netherlands — Charles G. Taylor, a former president of Liberia, is the first former head of state convicted by an international tribunal since the Nuremberg trials.
By SARAH LYALL 7:13 PM ET
LONDON — Andy Coulson, a former aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, was charged with lying under oath about his knowledge of phone hacking when he was editor of The News of the World.
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Adam Ferguson for The New York Times By ROD NORDLAND 8:19 PM ET
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — The operational details at the Parwan Detention Facility in Afghanistan point out a gap between nominal Afghan control and the reality of lasting American authority.
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Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The arrests of four former officers have reawakened American concerns about how closely Mexico’s army may be linked to a drug cartel.
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Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Although the border from Rafah, Egypt, to Gaza is now open to travelers, underground passageways lie at the heart of life and commerce in Gaza.
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Shawn Poynter for The New York Times LOUISA, Ky. — With the coal industry under siege, the announcement that a Kentucky power plant planned to switch to natural gas prompted an uproar.
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Andy Rain/European Pressphoto Agency By JERÉ LONGMAN 8:15 PM ET
Two black players’ families, fearing violence in Ukraine, are unlikely to attend Euro 2012, and John Terry, left, a top England player, is accused of racial abuse.
By MICHAEL WINES 8:30 PM ET
BEIJING — Spooked by a slowing economy, China has opened the financial spigots to build more roads and airports and to subsidize consumer purchases.
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
LONDON — European policy makers are questioning who will provide the money that Madrid needs to stay in business.
By DAVID JOLLY
PARIS — Faced with growing fears about Spain, the European Commission signaled Wednesday that it might be flexible on the country's deficit targets.
By GREG BISHOP 52 minutes ago
PARIS — Brian Baker pushed Gilles Simon to five sets in the second round after coming back from a six-year absence from the professional tour and five major surgeries.
“Part of me, the wife and mother and sister and friend, decries the civility of the sentence, which was denied to so many of the victims of this horror,” writes Millie Bea. A woman cradled her son after he was shot while trying to cross into Lebanon. | China does not lack laws, but rather the rule of law. Geneticists sequenced the tomato’s genome and found that it has 31,760 genes — about 7,000 more than a person. | Protests over electricity shortages are a challenge for the government and more so for the opposition. The remoted control transformed the relationship of viewers to television. | |
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