Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel warns of strikes
AMMAN - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks fail. Full Article
Insight: Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes
ZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG - In an underground mall just a stone's throw from China's teeming border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical golden plaques does a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland Chinese visitors, many of them bound for the gambling hub.
South Africa struggles not to be Bangladesh
NEWCASTLE, South Africa - South Africa says its garment industry is better regulated and workers are better paid than in ultra low-cost Asian producers like Bangladesh. Yet the ruling government, with close links to labor unions, wants to go further. Full Article
Budget weighs heavily in Los Angeles race
LOS ANGELES - Amid the mudslinging that has marked Los Angeles' mayoral race, the two candidates vying to lead America's second-largest city agree on this: Its finances are terrible, and potential fiscal meltdown looms large. Full Article
With president ailing, new era beckons Algeria
ALGIERS - Three weeks after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was rushed to hospital in Paris, Algeria is preparing for a successor who for the first time will come from a generation too young to have fought in Algeria's war of independence against France. Full Article
Training fails to halt military sexual assault crisis
WASHINGTON - The U.S. armed forces in recent years rolled out education programs about proper sexual conduct through methods like role playing and video games. But that has failed to prevent a reported 37 percent jump in sexual assault cases in 2012. Full Article
Penitent hacker aims to protect world's ATMs
VASLUI, Romania - Valentin Boanta is an unlikely warrior in the fight against cyber crime. Currently in prison for aiding a gang that copied data from ATM cards, he says he's invented a device that could prevent the same crime he helped commit. Full Article | Slideshow
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'Superfood' project aims to curb malnutrition
The potential of algae to feed the hungry is being turned into reality by students at a high school in Tel Aviv. The students are developing a system to convert highly nutritious spirulina algae into powder for distribution in poor African communities. Video
Funeral for female politician gunned down in Pakistan
May 19 - Hundreds attended a funeral for reformist party politician Zara Hussain who was gunned down outside of her Karachi home the day before. Deborah Gembara reports.
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Austerity is a moral issue
Europe’s economic turmoil is dragging the world economy down. Despite this destructive display of unnecessary masochism, many Americans still demand that the U.S. sequester be allowed to continue slashing at public spending. Commentary
Massive, open, online disruption
Massive, open, online classes are transforming higher education and saving students money. So why are so many administrators and professors scared? Because tech is about to disrupt their industry like it's changed so many others. Commentary
The radical force of 'Abenomics'
The financial arithmetic of Abenomics means that tolerable stagnation is no longer an option for Japan. Will the radical steps taken by the government be enough to fix the country's economy? Commentary
Washington-gate
An increasingly polarized Washington is devouring its own. Ceaseless, take-no-prisoners political warfare, not nefarious White House plots, ravages government. Commentary
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated Obama
It wasn't the substance of the AP story that exasperated the government, but that the AP found a source or sources that spilled information about an ongoing intelligence operation and that even grander leaks might surge into the press corps’ rain barrels. Commentary
‘Reset’ on Iran now
Evidence that sanctions are not achieving their purpose should give President Obama political breathing room to have negotiators put serious sanctions relief on the table – which could prove to be in America’s national security interest. Commentary
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Obama, Nixon and press freedom
James Goodale, who represented the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, says President Obama is quickly becoming the president who does the most to erode freedom of the press. Video
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