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    UN court: Nicaragua breached Costa Rican sovereignty
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    UN court: Nicaragua breached Costa Rican sovereignty
    MIKE CORDER 
    Dec 16, 2015
    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' highest court ruled Wednesday that Nicaragua violated Costa Rica's territorial sovereignty by establ...
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    Ongoing fighting in Yemen undermines cease-fire, peace talks
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    Ongoing fighting in Yemen undermines cease-fire, peace talks
    AHMED AL-HAJ 
    Dec 16, 2015
    SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Clashes were underway Wednesday along several front lines in Yemen, claiming at least 42 lives and undermining a day-old cease-fir...
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    South Sudan: Devastation of civil war continues, 2 years on
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    South Sudan: Devastation of civil war continues, 2 years on
    JASON PATINKIN 
    Dec 16, 2015
    LEER, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's civil war took away everything that had been precious to Mary Nyak Chot. "All my children were killed. The youn...
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    Calls for investigation after “massacre” in Nigeria
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    Calls for investigation after “massacre” in Nigeria
    MICHELLE FAUL 
    Dec 16, 2015
    LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Human rights advocates and the United States called for an investigation following the Nigerian army's raid on a Shiite sect in ...
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    Anonymous email threat closes all Los Angeles schools
    Nation, News
    Anonymous email threat closes all Los Angeles schools
    CHRISTOPHER WEBER and TAMI ABDOLLAH 
    Dec 15, 2015
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation's second-largest school district shut down Tuesday after a school board member received an emailed threat that raised fe...
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    Pope’s comments on global warming top notable quotes list
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    Pope’s comments on global warming top notable quotes list
    Dec 15, 2015
    Comments by Pope, presidential candidates on Yale librarian's list of notable quotes of 2015Cruz in the spotlight as Republicans return to the debate ...
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    Kerry calls for common ground with Russia on Syria, Ukraine
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    Kerry calls for common ground with Russia on Syria, Ukraine
    MATTHEW LEE 
    Dec 15, 2015
    MOSCOW (AP) — The United States and Russia need to find "common ground" to end Syria's civil war and restore stability in eastern Ukraine, U.S. Secret...
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    Polish geology experts: No hidden Nazi train
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    Polish geology experts: No hidden Nazi train
    Dec 15, 2015
    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish geology experts say they have found no traces of a train at a site allegedly hiding a World War II Nazi train. Experts fr...
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    WHO hopes Yemen cease-fire opens way for medical supplies
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    WHO hopes Yemen cease-fire opens way for medical supplies
    JAMEY KEATEN and AHMED AL-HAJ 
    Dec 15, 2015
    GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it hopes a cease-fire in Yemen will allow for deliveries of needed medical aid into the war-torn coun...
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    Saudi Arabia forms Islamic counterterrorism coalition
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    Saudi Arabia forms Islamic counterterrorism coalition
    AYA BATRAWY 
    Dec 15, 2015
    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that 34 nations have agreed to form a new "Islamic military alliance" to fight terrorism with a ...
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    Disgraced ex-New Mexico official weighs making apologies
    Nation, News
    Disgraced ex-New Mexico official weighs making apologies
    MORGAN LEE 
    Dec 15, 2015
    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's disgraced former secretary of state has until Wednesday to accept a sentence that combines a month in jail with a f...
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    Merriam-Webster declares ‘ism’ as word of the year for 2015
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    Merriam-Webster declares ‘ism’ as word of the year for 2015
    LEANNE ITALIE 
    Dec 15, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just any ism. The top isms to earn high traff...
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    Crunch time again for health law; Tuesday sign-up deadline
    Nation, News
    Crunch time again for health law; Tuesday sign-up deadline
    RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR 
    Dec 14, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — It's crunch time to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law. The website works much better now, but risi...
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    2 killed in clashes in Turkey as Kurds denounce curfew
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    2 killed in clashes in Turkey as Kurds denounce curfew
    SUZAN FRASER 
    Dec 14, 2015
    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police on Monday clashed with a group of Kurds following a protest by some 5,000 people denouncing a dayslong curfew imposed by ...
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    The Latest: Prosecutor says Gray hurt in ‘casket on wheels’
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    The Latest: Prosecutor says Gray hurt in ‘casket on wheels’
    Dec 14, 2015
    BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a Baltimore police officer who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old bl...
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    Officials: LA deputies killed man who held gun as he fell
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    Officials: LA deputies killed man who held gun as he fell
    ROBERT JABLON and DAISY NGUYEN 
    Dec 14, 2015
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first 911 caller reported seeing a man walking down a street shooting a gun in the air. Authorities said they received five mor...
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    Libyans urged to accept cease-fire, embrace UN unity plan
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    Libyans urged to accept cease-fire, embrace UN unity plan
    MATTHEW LEE 
    Dec 13, 2015
    ROME (AP) — Diplomats trying to help Libya emerge from the chaos that terrorists have exploited said Sunday that rival political factions in the North...
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    States expanded gun rights after Sandy Hook school massacre
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    States expanded gun rights after Sandy Hook school massacre
    RYAN J. FOLEY 
    Dec 13, 2015
    IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which a mentally troubled young man killed 26 children and educators, ser...
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    Burundi: US urges citizens to leave after Friday violence
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    Burundi: US urges citizens to leave after Friday violence
    ELOGE WILLY KANEZA and TOM ODULA 
    Dec 13, 2015
    BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — The U.S. government asked its citizens to leave Burundi as soon as possible Sunday after 87 people were killed Friday in an ...
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    Now comes the tough part: The world’s carbon diet starts
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    Now comes the tough part: The world’s carbon diet starts
    SETH BORENSTEIN 
    Dec 13, 2015
    PARIS (AP) — The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won't be easy — or cheap. Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a first-...
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    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
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    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
    August 3, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK  — A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke...
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    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
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    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
    Here's how they work — and when they're used
    By KING JEMISON  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    August 3, 2025
    (TNS) — Kaysi Ricker's phone buzzed with a flash flood warning. She scrambled down to the creek behind her house to clean up the toys her niece and ne...
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    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
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    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
    August 3, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I recently reconnected with a woman I dated briefly in the 1980s and haven't seen since. She's around my age. We both were married one year...
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    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
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    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
    August 2, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Making wine is a complex endeavor — it depends on grape composition, microbes like yeast, and environmental conditions such as tempe...
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    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
    Business, Nation & World, PA State News
    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
    By CHARLES THOMPSON pennlive.com 
    August 2, 2025
    (TNS) — If there was any takeaway from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s first public meeting on the restart of the nuclear power station at Three M...
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    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
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    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
    By STEVE SHERK Jr.  Special to The Era  
    August 2, 2025
    Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
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