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A dispute over whether to include Iran in proposed negotiations to end the fighting in Syria is complicating the effort by the U.S. and allies to present a unified front against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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A myth won’t educate a nation.
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U.S. bankers and insurers are trying to use trade deals, which can trump existing legislation, to weaken parts of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.
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U.S. investigators looking into the May 17 Connecticut commuter-rail crash haven’t yet found a clear cause.
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Updated 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
Reports of the death of suburbia have been exaggerated.
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A congressional hearing into Apple Inc.’s use of offshore tax shelters called attention to how U.S. companies lower their taxes, and underscored the difficulty Congress confronts when trying to end the practice.
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Iran’s election watchdog barred former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from next month’s presidential vote, limiting the field mostly to loyalist candidates.
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Iran’s political leaders face the choice of blocking Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s late bid for the presidency, or allowing him to run and wrecking a carefully crafted field of loyalists.
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Ravi Shanker makes weekly pilgrimages to Chilkur Balaji temple outside Hyderabad, India, asking for a little help on a visa from an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
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Activists complain that U.S. President Barack Obama, who welcomes Myanmar’s President Thein Sein to the White House this week, is embracing the former general too soon, before he’s proved his reformist bona fides. In fact, Obama is late to the party.
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