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Measles-like virus linked to dolphin deaths along US east coast
A virus that is similar to measles in humans is suspected of killing hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins since July, US officials ...Joe Biden: No doubt Assad regime used chemical weapons in Syria
US Vice President Joe Biden said there is no doubt that Syria\'s government was responsible for a recent chemical attack in Damascus, ...Stocks slide, oil up as Syria tensions escalate
Fears of an escalating conflict in Syria rippled across financial markets on Tuesday, sinking stocks, lifting gold and pushing the price of ...UN says it will contact Washington over NSA spying report
The United Nations said on Monday it plans to contact the United States over a report that the U.S. National Security Agency ...Yosemite wildfires threaten California towns
A massive wildfire in the western U.S. state of California is raging out of control and threatening one of the country\'s best ...German report says US spied on UN
The German magazine Der Spiegel says the U.S. National Security Agency secretly monitored the U.N.\'s internal video conferencing system by decrypting it ...FARC killed 13 Colombian soldiers
Thirteen soldiers were ambushed and killed by the FARC on Saturday in the oil-producing province of Arauca, the army said.US says man arrested with uranium for Iran hidden in shoes
U.S. prosecutors charged a man from Sierra Leone with trying to sell undercover agents 1,000 tons of yellowcake uranium he thought would ...Egypt reopens Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip
An Egyptian official says the country\'s border crossing with Gaza, which was closed after a deadly attack on policemen this week, has ...US celebrates anniversary of Martin Luther King march
Thousands of people have attended a rally in Washington to mark 50 years since Martin Luther King\'s famous "I have a dream" ...