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U.S. hands over control of Bagram prison to Afghan government
BAGRAM, Afghanistan—The U.S. handed over control of the prison at Bagram air base to the Afghan government Monday, resolving a major sticking point that had been complicating relations between Washington and Kabul as both countries brace for the...
Tags: Hamid Karzai, Prisons, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Taliban, Politics
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Emory O. Deiterich, 83
Emory Odell Deiterich, 83, of Hagerstown, passed away Saturday, March 23, 2013, at NMS Healthcare, Hagerstown. Born Oct. 24, 1929, in Hagerstown, he was the son of the late George Fred Dieterich Sr. and Katherine Lenore (Schindel) Dieterich, and raised...Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Unrest, Conflicts and War, American Legion, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Air Force
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Maliki resists Kerry's call to halt flow of Iranian arms to Syria
BAGHDAD – Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Sunday to stop Iran from flying arms across Iraqi territory to the beleaguered Syrian regime, but found him unwilling to give ground. In a visit to Baghdad that...
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bashar Assad
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Goro Miyazaki follows in his father's path in 'Poppy Hill' ★★★★
Is any animated feature produced by the Japanese treasure known as Studio Ghibli, responsible for "Spirited Away," "Ponyo" and others, capable of capturing a mass American audience's attention? Good question, especially in a box-office cycle dominated...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ponyo (movie), Wars and Interventions
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Relay for Life begins in El Centro
Staff WriterAbe Cardenas endured multiple hardships and saw hundreds of his brothers die while in the years he served in Vietnam, but to him, none of that adversity compares to the 14 months he’s dealt with cancer. “I didn’t believe this was going...Tags: Relay for Life, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Throat Cancer, Chemotherapy
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Play based on a life becomes a story that touches all
"Write about your own life" says many a writing teacher to many a young scribe. Confronted with that authoritative solipsism, the young writer tends to worry about two things. First, that my life is not interesting enough to write about, especially not...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment Events, Drugs and Medicines, Yaz (drug), Arts and Culture
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Letters: WMD intelligence -- errors or lies?
Re "The what if's of Iraq," Opinion, March 19 Max Boot claims that the justification of ending Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program for going to war with Saddam Hussein was an error, not a lie. He then assigns much of the blame for the ongoing...
Tags: Defense Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Iraq War (2003-2011), United Nations
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Valerie Sayers on Joe DiMaggio and "The Powers"
In "The Powers," Valerie Sayers' long-awaited sixth novel — her first since "Brain Fever" (1996) — the great Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio is embarking on his historic hitting streak of 1941, riveting Americans as much as or more than the...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Washington Post, Roman Catholicism, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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It's time to stop blaming Bush
I am not a fan of former President George W. Bush, but I must comment on the hatchet job that was The Sun's editorial about the opening of the Bush library in Dallas ("Misoverestimating Bush," April 28). During the last two years of Mr. Bush's...
Tags: Ellicott City, George W. Bush, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Wars and Interventions
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Global Voices: Pleas for Korean peace 60 years after fighting ended
A conference to promote peace between communist and capitalist adversaries might sound like an antiquated notion in the post-Cold War era. But in this 60th anniversary year of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which suspended the fighting but...
Tags: North Korea, China, Korean War (1950-1953), University of Chicago, Entertainment
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Stay out of Syria
With the Iraq War behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are singing the old country song: "I've enjoyed as much of this as...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of Chicago, Bashar Assad, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Six veterans plead guilty to Agent Orange benefits fraud
Six military veterans from Maryland pleaded guilty to fraud charges this week in a scheme to obtain federal military benefits and state tax breaks with faked documentation claiming they were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, according to the...
Tags: Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. Navy, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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