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OSLO, Norway – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday proposed an international conference to jump-start stalled peace talks with Israel, and he said the election of a Hamas government, sworn to Israel’s destruction, was no obstacle. Speaking in the Norwegian capital where Israel and the Palestinians secretly hammered out their …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The top U.S and British diplomats made a surprise trip to Iraq on Sunday to prod the country’s struggling leaders to end nearly four months of wrangling and form a new government. “We’re going to urge that the negotiations be wrapped up,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice …

INDIANAPOLIS – Nine former employees of a county juvenile detention center were charged Monday with using their positions of authority to have sex with teenage girls. The nine workers were accused of having sex with six girls who were 13 to 15 years old at the time. Marion County Prosecutor …