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UN presses Afghans to seize opportunity for dialogue, despite recent setbacks

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Special Representative for Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura briefs Security Council

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Germany Approves A Bailout That's Way Too Small To Solve Europe's Problems

By a wide majority, Germany's parliament just agreed to expand Europe's bailout fund. This sounds like a big deal: Germany's rescuing Europe!

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NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth

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NEOWISE observations indicate that there are at least 40 percent fewer near-Earth...

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NIH to make a mightier mouse resource for understanding disease

Over the next five years, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researchers will extensively test and generate data about mice with disrupted genes to gain clues about human diseases. NIH today awarded a set of cooper...

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