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Time.com - U.S. efforts to cajole Mahmoud Abbas into talks with the Israelis have yet to yield results. But the Obama Administration could soon find itself on the spot if such talks go ahead
Reuters - The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia, paying an unprecedented joint visit to Beirut on Friday, will try to head off any conflict over a U.N.-backed tribunal which may indict Hezbollah members in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri.
Reuters - Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said on Friday.
AP - The showdown between Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid has fascinated the American public for nearly 130 years with its classic, Old West storyline of the frontier lawman hunting down the notorious gunslinger.
AP - Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nearly hung up, thinking it was a sales call.
AP - BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of its effort to repair the company's badly damaged reputation.