Croatia Withdrawing Soldiers from U.N. Force on Israel-Syria Frontier

Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic of Croatia said Thursday that his country would withdraw its soldiers from a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights following reports that Croatia was funneling weapons to antigovernment fighters in Syria. Croatia has nearly 100 soldiers serving with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, which is responsible for maintaining the fragile...

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Natalie and Derrica Wilson Help Find the Missing

Heroes Among Us By Nicole Weisensee Egan 02/28/2013 at 02:45 PM EST Natalie Wilson (left) and Derrica Wilson Shaul Schwarz One spring day in 2004 a young African-American woman named Tamika Huston vanished from her Spartanburg, S.C., apartment.Her family did everything...

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WHO: Small cancer risk after Fukushima accident

LONDON (AP) — People exposed to the highest doses of radiation during Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011 may have a slightly higher risk of cancer but one so small it probably won't be detectable, the World Health Organization said in a report released Thursday.A group of experts convened by the agency assessed the risk of various cancers based on estimates of how much radiation people...

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Cuts imminent, Senate Democrats, GOP stage votes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Squabbling away the hours, the Senate moved toward certain defeat of last-minute plans to avoid $85 billion in broad-based spending reductions Thursday as the two political parties blamed each other for the latest outbreak of gridlock and the Obama administration readied plans to put the cuts into effect.The immediate impact was uncertain as the administration pulled back on its...

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IHT Rendezvous: Eve Best Returns to the Globe, This Time as a Director

LONDON — The recent press conference announcing the 2013 season at Shakespeare’s Globe on one level seemed like variations on an ongoing theme.A onetime Falstaff at this address, Roger Allam, is returning to open the season as Prospero in “The Tempest,” directed by Jeremy Herrin, while the perennial favorite, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” will be seen in May in a new staging, this time from the Globe’s...

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PHOTOS: Jennifer Lawrence Works the Camera for Dior

Stylewatch Style News Now 02/26/2013 at 11:30 AM ET You’ve seen the gorgeous ads — now see Jennifer Lawrence make them! In this just-released clip, the Oscar winner works the cameras for the Miss Dior handbag line.“Dior represents...

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Wall Street climbs 1 percent on Bernanke, economic data

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose 1 percent on Wednesday, erasing much of the week's losses as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke remained steadfast in his support of the Fed's stimulus policy and data pointed to economic improvement. In his second day before a congressional committee, Bernanke repeated testimony in which he defended the Fed's policy of buying bonds to keep interest...

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Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital

BOSTON (AP) — The 2007 chemical attack left the Vermont nurse unrecognizable to anyone who knew her.But now Carmen Blandin Tarleton's face has changed again following a facial transplant this month.Doctors at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston said Wednesday that the 44-year-old's surgery included transplanting a female donor's facial skin to Tarleton's neck, nose and lips, along with facial...

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IHT Rendezvous: Memories of Floating Over Luxor, Now Tinged With the Macabre

My 5-year-old son spent the entire hot-air balloon ride over Luxor crouched in the bottom of the basket, terrified of the flames that kept shooting into the balloon—the flames that produced the hot air that kept us afloat. He missed the glorious views: of the ancient ruins and the quilts of green grass, of the magnificent sunrise and the dancing shadows it created out of the dozens of other hot-air...

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Meet the New Stars of DWTS

Dancing with the Stars: Meet the Season 16 ContestantsLisa Vanderpump, Kellie Pickler, Aly Raisman and more celebrities will hit the ballroom on March 18 Credit: Jen Lowery/Splash News Online Updated: Tuesday Feb 26, 2013 | 10:00 AM EST Subscribe Now ...

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