LOS ANGELES – Federal officials said Tuesday they do not know what is causing a critical instrument landing system to fail at Los Angeles International Airport. The system, a beacon that guides planes to one of the airport’s runways, has shut off twice within a week, most recently for about …
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JERUSALEM – An Israeli airstrike late Monday completely destroyed an empty house in the Jebaliya refugee camp, witnesses said. The strike targeted a command center for the Islamic Jihad militant group, the army said. Palestinian officials said the house was empty, having been evacuated two days before when Israeli officials …
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WASHINGTON – The Brazilian division of Ford Motor Co. (F) on Wednesday announced a recall of 102,000 multi-fuel cars for inspection of a tiny gasoline repository used to start the vehicles when their main tanks are filled with ethanol during cold weather. The small gas tanks in “flex-fuel” cars — …
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The U.S. is proposing deploying international observers at the main cargo crossing between Israel and Gaza to prevent repeated security closures of Gaza’s economic lifeline, a Palestinian negotiator said Monday. The Palestinians support the idea, and Israel is studying it, officials said. CountryWatch: Israel | …
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Two kidnapped FOX News journalists freed by gunmen last Sunday described in chilling detail how their abductors calmly discussed killing one of them. “Unfortunately for you, you were with an American,” camerman Olaf Wiig said his captors told him. “A dangerous American… and we’re going to kill him,” referring to …
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JERUSALEM – The Israeli army said Thursday that it has transferred control over a portion of the Israel-Lebanon border to Lebanese and international troops for the first time in two decades. Control of a small area of the border near the Israeli border town of Metulla was handed over on …
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LOS ANGELES – Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Will Smith’s preppy cousin Carlton on TV’s “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” is splitting from his wife of four years. Ribeiro, 34, filed for divorce from Robin Ribeiro on Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences, according to Superior Court documents. He is seeking joint custody …
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NEW YORK – A man accused of stabbing two Canadian women walking in Manhattan’s theater district told investigators he was angry because when he tried to talk to them, they snubbed him, according to a police report made public Monday during his arraignment. “Yeah, those white girls. … They don’t …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Tens of thousands of foreigners fled fighting in Lebanon and a cruise ship carrying about 1,000 Americans arrived in nearby Cyprus Thursday as a massive evacuation operation by air, sea and road swung into top gear. The Canadian prime minister arrived in Cyprus from Paris to pick …
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NEW YORK – A blackout in the borough of Queens entered its sixth day Saturday in the hottest week of the summer with the mayor saying chances were small that the problem could be repaired by the end of the weekend. Some 15,000 to 20,000 customers — which could be …
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