Iran's president on Saturday downplayed the threat Israel poses to Iran, comparing it to an annoying bug, and said there is no war on the horizon between the two nations.

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Ahmadinejad: Israel a ‘mosquito’ to Iran

President Obama’s visit to Afghanistan for the first time in 17 months was a chance to make the most of a brief window when relations between the two governments are improving after months of crisis.

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News Analysis: President Obama’s Visit to Afghanistan Is a Chance to Ease Tensions

Talks of a limited nature on the military relationship between the two nations open on Wednesday in Beijing and are a prelude to a wider-ranging dialogue.

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Unease Mounting, China and U.S. to Open Military Talks

The U.S. and Japanese governments said Thursday that they will move about 9,000 Marines off Okinawa to other bases in the Western Pacific, in a bid to remove a persistent irritant in the relationship between the two allies. Read full article > >

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U.S. comes to agreement with Japan to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa

The disparities in the economies of Germany and France, visible in border towns between the two countries, have emerged as focal points of the French presidential campaign.

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Economic Disparities With Germany Shapes a French Election

KABUL — Five visiting U.S. senators took a hard line with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, outlining issues that could endanger a long-term partnership between the two nations and emphasizing the importance of American-led night raids as U.S. forces withdraw from the conflict. Read full article > >

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U.S. senators, Afghan leaders discuss parameters for long-term partnership

BANNU, Pakistan — An American drone strike killed four Islamist militants in Pakistan, the first such attack since errant U.S airstrikes in November killed two dozen Pakistan troops and pushed strained ties between the two nations close to collapse, Pakistani intelligence officials said Wednesday. Read full article > >

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U.S. fires 1st drone into Pakistan since strike that killed Pakistani troops; 4 militants dead

BAGHDAD — While U.S. troops left Iraq two weeks ago, Saturday marked the official end of the security agreement between the two countries, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was quick to take political advantage of the occasion via the podium and a text message to citizens. Recipients reported getting their texts over a period of at least 75 minutes. Read full article > >

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Maliki celebrates end of U.S.-Iraq pact

A delegation of South Korean citizens left for North Korea on Monday, passing through the demilitarized zone between the two countries to express condolences over the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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S. Koreans enter North to pay respects

MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin struck out hard at the United States on Thursday, signaling that the warming relations between the two countries could be sacrificed as he tries to bolster his authority in the face of street protests. Putin lacerated Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for questioning the validity of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections and suggested that she had galvanized thousands of protesters by declaring the vote “neither free nor fair.” Read full article > >

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Putin lashes back at Clinton criticism

To get a sense of how vulnerable the U.S. economy could be if the euro currency union cracks apart, start with the volume of U.S. exports to the euro zone — $153 billion in the first six months of the year. Add several hundred billion dollars in investments by U.S. banks in the euro zone and several trillion dollars’ worth of other financial contracts between the two economies. Read full article > >

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Tremors from a euro collapse would be global, with U.S. recession likely

The US ambassador to the UK has told MPs the extradition treaty between the two countries works well, ahead of a Commons debate next week.

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US ambassador defends extradition

They traveled to the city square from housing projects, antebellum mansions and old plantations on the outskirts of town. By nightfall, more than 100 people had gathered at the courthouse to find out who would be their next mayor. Democrats, most of whom were black, stood in one part of the square. Republicans, most of them white, stood in another part and also waited inside. Three state troopers patrolled between the two groups, on the lookout for another fight to avenge one that had occurred a few hours before. Read full article > >

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Two Washingtons: Bitterly divided Georgia town reflects discord in nation’s capital

GARISSA, Kenya — Gunmen kidnapped two Spanish women working for the aid group Doctors Without Borders at a refugee camp in Kenya on Thursday, the third abduction in a month of westerners in the country by attackers linked to Somalia. Kenyan police said they suspected that Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab insurgents were behind the kidnapping and added that security forces had chased the abductors toward the border between the two countries, which has been sealed. Read full article > >

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Gunmen kidnap two Spanish aid workers from Kenyan camp

People with schizophrenia are six times more likely to develop epilepsy, says a study from Taiwan, which found a strong relationship between the two diseases.

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Schizophrenia ‘link’ to epilepsy