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Deal offers faint hope for Iranian-Americans' banking woes

[2015-07-23 07:41]

The nuclear pact could eventually help many Iranian-Americans who have struggled with red tape, shuttered accounts and even criminal prosecution to conduct bank transactions, although relief seems unlikely anytime soon.

Right-wingers hold protest

[2015-07-23 07:41]

Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers rallied in Kiev on Tuesday to protest government policies following a deadly standoff between radical nationalists and police in the country's west.

Video shows arrest of woman who died in jail

[2015-07-23 07:41]

Dashboard camera video released on Tuesday involving the traffic stop in Texas of a woman later found hanging dead in her jail cell showed how the incident quickly escalated into an altercation between her and a state trooper.

Nazi hunter seeks probe of Dane for war crimes

[2015-07-23 07:41]

A leading Nazi hunter has asked Denmark to investigate a 90-year-old Dane suspected of being involved in the mass murder of Jews in Belarus during World War II.

Greek bailout vote to test Syriza party rebellion

[2015-07-23 07:41]

Greece's leftist government urged disgruntled lawmakers on Wednesday to back reforms required for talks on a rescue deal to start, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced his second major test in parliament in a week.

No reforms, no money, senior German lawmaker warns Athens

[2015-07-23 07:41]

A senior German lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party on Wednesday warned the Greek government not to backtrack on its reform commitments.

IN BRIEF (Page 12)

[2015-07-23 07:41]

A Myanmar court sentenced 153 Chinese citizens to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of illegal logging in the northern state of Kachin, Thailand's The Nation reported on Wednesday.

IS teaches children to kill

[2015-07-22 07:55]

The children had all been shown videos of beheadings and were told by their trainers with the Islamic State group that they would perform one someday. First, they had to practice technique. More than 120 boys were each given a doll and a sword and were told: cut off its head.

George Clooney seeks to expose corruption in Africa war zones

[2015-07-22 07:55]

Hollywood actor George Clooney launched an initiative on Monday to track down and help bring to justice those funding and profiting from Africa's deadliest conflicts in a bid to fight corruption in war zones.

Ain't misbehavin'? Broadway audiences' faux pas get spotlight

[2015-07-22 07:55]

Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway: Marimba ringtones! Rat-a-tat texting! The shaming "Shhhhh"!

Hawking launches big search for alien life

[2015-07-22 07:55]

British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Monday launched the biggest-ever search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in a $100 million, 10-year project to scan the heavens.

Around the world

[2015-07-22 07:55]

Striking French ferry workers blocked access to the loading terminal for the Eurotunnel that links France and England, delaying cargo and passengers hoping to cross the English Channel.

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