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KFAR KILA, Lebanon – The Lebanese army reached the country’s southern border with Israel for the first time in decades Friday, sending a lone jeep on patrol through Kfar Kila, a battered stronghold of support for Hezbollah militants. Meanwhile, Israeli drones and warplanes were crisscrossing the skies above Lebanon’s eastern …

KIEV, Ukraine – Viktor Yanukovych, whose fraud-tainted victory in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections sparked the Orange Revolution, was expected Thursday to become the country’s next prime minister after the president submitted his former rival’s candidacy to parliament. President Viktor Yushchenko acknowledged that his decision to nominate the man he …

HOUSTON – A stick of dynamite was found in a college student’s checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight from Argentina, one of seven security incidents Friday that caused U.S. flights to be diverted, evacuated, searched or delayed. Howard McFarland Fish, 21, was charged with carrying an explosive aboard an …