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BEIRUT - Western powers expelled Syria's envoys on Tuesday in outrage at a massacre of 108 people, almost half of them children, and peace envoy Kofi Annan urged President Bashar al-Assad to halt the bloodshed as "a tipping point" had been reached. | Video
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MADRID - Spain, battling a debt crisis that is shaking its government, banks and companies, will soon issue new bonds to fund ailing lenders and indebted regions despite borrowing costs nearing the 7 percent level that drove other states to seek a bailout.
U.S. home prices rise but consumer confidence cools
NEW YORK - U.S. home prices edged higher for the second month in a row in March as the housing recovery picked up traction, while gains in some of the hardest hit areas suggested the improvement was becoming more broad-based. | Video
Prosecution concludes in Clemens trial, now in seventh week
WASHINGTON - Government prosecutors accusing former pitching ace Roger Clemens of perjury wrapped up their case on Tuesday in a slow-moving criminal trial that has now entered its seventh week.
Top UK court to rule on Assange sex case extradition
LONDON - Britain's Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday on whether to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, the latest chapter in the saga of the self-styled Internet whistleblower and bane of Washington.
Candidate's HQ attacked as vote polarizes Egypt
CAIRO - An attack on the offices of one of the two finalists in Egypt's presidential race has sounded a warning that the last round of voting might spark more violence in a nation polarized by the choice between an Islamist and an ex-general from Hosni Mubarak's era. | Video
Day seven for jurors in former Senator Edwards' trial
GREENSBORO, North Carolina - Jurors in North Carolina reconvened on Tuesday for a seventh day of deliberations in former U.S. Senator John Edwards' federal campaign finance case, with little indication they were close to deciding whether he broke the law while running for president.
Greece's pro-bailout conservatives leading in poll
ATHENS - Greece's pro-bailout conservatives are leading ahead of a national parliamentary election next month that may determine whether the country remains in the euro zone, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
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