BEIRUT (AP) - After watching much of Syria's territory slip into rebel hands, President Bashar Assad's regime is focusing on the basics: shoring up its hold on Damascus and the strip of land connecting the capital with the Mediterranean coa... [Full Article]
NEW YORK - In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, local governments are rethinking how to best protect the U.S. coastline from storms and flooding, which appear likely to exert a larger toll as the result of sea level rise and climate change. (Source:... [Full Article]
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them on the east coast of the country, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Friday, citing intelligence sources in South Korea... [Full Article]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's defense minister says North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, but says it is not capable of hitting the United States. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
KESENNUMA, Japan (AP) - Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Nearly three years after a deepwater well rupture killed 11 men, sank a rig and spewed 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP and the other companies involved are scheduled to face their judge in court. The trial over the wo... [Full Article]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was prepared to go to any lengths - including using lethal force - to cling to power after losing elections in 2010, and should stand trial for his alleged involvement in post-... [Full Article]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Defense lawyers for Laurent Gbagbo urged International Criminal Court judges Tuesday to rule that they have no authority to put the former Ivory Coast president on trial on charges including murder, rape and persecution.... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces a rise in energy prices as the market is on a bumpy ride heading for a power supply crunch while needing to compete globally for gas resources, the outgoing head of energy regulator Ofgem said. Alistair Buchanan warne... [Full Article]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A melancholy sense of lost opportunity pervades "Silent Night," an opera that tells of a moment in World War I when soldiers from hostile nations joined together for an informal truce on Christmas Eve, 1914. (Source: Ass... [Full Article]
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