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Afghan peace bid stumbles on Kabul-Taliban protocol row
DOHA - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the Taliban's new Qatar office delayed preliminary discussions between the United States and the Islamist insurgents.
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Syria's warring sides trade wheat for flour
IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria - Away from the battlefield, some Syrian rebels are doing business with the same government they are trying to topple.
Sweden jails Rwandan for life for role in 1994 genocide
STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a man of Rwandan origin to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide in the African county, the first such case in the Nordic state.
Iraq says proxy war over Syria threatens its neutrality
BAGHDAD - Iraq is being buffeted by both sides in the civil war raging across its border in Syria and Baghdad's official policy of neutrality is at risk as the conflict spirals into a region-wide proxy war, its foreign minister said.
German insurance claims for flood damage may be nearly $8 billion: AIR
FRANKFURT - Insurance claims for flood damage in Germany may be as much as 6 billion euros ($8 billion), catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide said on Thursday, after the worst flooding in a decade.
Italy PM sees no impact on government from Berlusconi trials
ROME - Italian center-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta declared on Thursday that a series of criminal trials involving center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi would have no impact on the functioning of the coalition government between their two parties.


