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PARIS (AP) -- Heavy floods in southwest France have forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find ways to end the nearly 12-year war....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his trial or to see his wife alone....

BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....

BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....

GENEVA (AP) -- The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A wide-ranging farm bill the House is considering would cut food stamps by $2 billion a year and make it more difficult for some people to qualify for the domestic food aid program....

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens."...

pBERLIN—President Obama will call Wednesday for reducing the number of deployed U.S. strategic nuclear warheads by one-third if the Russian government agrees to similar cuts, reviving a goal outlined early in his presidency to work toward a world without nuclear weapons./p a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-call-for-nuclear-warhead-reduction-in-us-russia/2013/06/19/23b8e7aa-d8ac-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html?wprss=rss_politics"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636655/s/2d7ce414/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fobama-to-call-for-nuclear-warhead-reduction-in-us-russia%2F2013%2F06%2F19%2F23b8e7aa-d8ac-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_politicst=Obama+to+call+for+nuclear+warhead+reduction+in+U.S.%2C+Russia" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fobama-to-call-for-nuclear-warhead-reduction-in-us-russia%2F2013%2F06%2F19%2F23b8e7aa-d8ac-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_politicst=Obama+to+call+for+nuclear+warhead+reduction+in+U.S.%2C+Russia" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fobama-to-call-for-nuclear-warhead-reduction-in-us-russia%2F2013%2F06%2F19%2F23b8e7aa-d8ac-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_politicst=Obama+to+call+for+nuclear+warhead+reduction+in+U.S.%2C+Russia" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fobama-to-call-for-nuclear-warhead-reduction-in-us-russia%2F2013%2F06%2F19%2F23b8e7aa-d8ac-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_politicst=Obama+to+call+for+nuclear+warhead+reduction+in+U.S.%2C+Russia" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Fobama-to-call-for-nuclear-warhead-reduction-in-us-russia%2F2013%2F06%2F19%2F23b8e7aa-d8ac-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_politicst=Obama+to+call+for+nuclear+warhead+reduction+in+U.S.%2C+Russia" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165667088308/u/60/f/636655/c/34656/s/2d7ce414/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165667088308/u/60/f/636655/c/34656/s/2d7ce414/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165667088308/u/60/f/636655/c/34656/s/2d7ce414/a2t.img" border="0"/

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The 19th-century orator and writer Frederick Douglass will once again stand tall in the U.S. Capitol....

The image was stark (AP) -- a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency's secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has operated fitfully during its eight years of low-profile existence, stymied by congressional infighting and, at times, censorship by government lawyers....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supporters of a far-reaching immigration bill in the Senate see fresh momentum from a report by the Congressional Budget Office that says the measure would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits by billions of dollars....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers have a message for those who want the party to soften its emphasis on social conservatism in hopes of reaching a wider national audience: Not so fast....

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament - people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption....

BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....

BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....