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U.S. paid to maintain inoperable Afghan police vehicles, audit finds Jan 18th 2013, 00:53 The U.S. government paid $6.8 million for maintenance of more than 7,000 Afghan police vehicles that had been destroyed or were out of commission, according to an inspector general report released Thursday. Read full article >> Israel's center-left parties fail to unite Jan 18th 2013, 00:40 JERUSALEM — Less than a week before Israel's parliamentary election, a fractured array of centrist parties has failed to join forces and offer a coherent alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read full article >> Pakistan averts, for now, two new crises Jan 18th 2013, 00:18 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After days of anti-government protests, sectarian violence and political turmoil, Pakistan managed on Thursday to retreat from the brink of the kind of chaos that has often ushered in military rule during the nation's 65-year history. Read full article >> Syrian activists: More than 100 killed in village Jan 18th 2013, 00:05 BEIRUT — Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad swept through a small farming village in central Syria this week, torching houses and shooting and stabbing residents in an attack that killed up to 106 people, including women and children, activists said Thursday. Read full article >> Kerry cruise to confirmation expected to begin with Thursday hearing Jan 18th 2013, 00:00 The Senate will begin consideration next week of one of its own, John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), to be the next secretary of state. Kerry's confirmation hearing is to take place Thursday morning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the panel he now heads. A spokesman has said Kerry plans to step aside as chairman before the session. Read full article >> French, Malian troops expand ground operations Jan 17th 2013, 23:20 BAMAKO, Mali — French and Malian troops broadened their ground operations in central Mali on Thursday, senior Malian military officials said, battling some militants in the area as hundreds of French reinforcements arrived in the West African nation's capital. Read full article >> U.N. ruling heartens Bolivian coca growers Jan 17th 2013, 18:34 BOGOTA, Colombia — Ever since the Spanish conquest, the Aymara and Quechua Indians of modern Bolivia have been a shadow majority. Banished to the margins of society, they have found relief from toiling in fields for a pittance by chewing an oval-shaped green leaf: coca, cocaine's raw material, which is a mild stimulant in its unprocessed form. Read full article >> Is the Algeria hostage crisis really al-Qaeda? Jan 17th 2013, 18:04 As is often the case with militant groups operating in the Arabic-speaking world, the one that seized a gas field in eastern Algeria appears to have some links to al-Qaeda. But those links, based on the currently available information, appear sketchy. And the group to which they may be linked, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is not the same as the Afghanistan-and-Pakistan-based "central" al-Qaeda that is better known to Americans. Read full article >> Russian official: U.S. adoption ban will stand Jan 17th 2013, 15:41 MOSCOW — Russia's children's ombudsman vigorously endorsed the ban on U.S. adoptions Thursday, saying there was no chance it would be lifted no matter how large the protest. However, the 50 or so American families who have received court decisions will be able to take their children home, he said. Read full article >> Live updates on the Algeria hostage crisis Jan 17th 2013, 14:14 At a remote Algerian gas field, militants and Algerian authorities clashed today, with conflicting reports saying some hostages, possibly Americans among them, may have been killed and others may have escaped. Read full article >>

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