Israel unlikely to extend current settlement curbs (AP)

AP - Israel’s defense minister says a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction is unlikely to continue in its current form after it expires at the end of this month.

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Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions (AP)

AP - John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head.

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Suicide car bomb explodes in Baghdad kills 8 (AP)

AP - Militants detonated a car bomb at a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and then tried to shoot their way into the building, killing eight people and wounding 29 in a brazen morning attack, Iraqi officials said.

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3 back-to-back explosions rock central Baghdad (AP)

AP - Three loud explosions shook central Baghdad in quick succession Sunday, killing at least 12 people and breaking a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital after elections last month.

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Oscar party crash: No deal in Cablevision-ABC feud (AP)

AP - ABC’s parent company switched off its signal to Cablevision’s 3.1 million customers in New York at midnight Saturday in a dispute over payments that escalated just hours before the start of the Academy Awards.

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Iraqis defy threat of violence to vote in election (AP)

AP - Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgent attacks, Iraqis went to the polls Sunday in an election testing the ability of the country’s still-fragile democracy to move forward amid uncertainty over a looming U.S. troop drawdown and still jagged sectarian divisions

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Twin blasts kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AP)

AP - A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a suicide attacker who detonated a second bomb in coordinated blasts that killed at least 40 people and wounded 150.

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Toyota chief apologizes for massive global recalls (AP)

AP - Toyota’s president emerged from seclusion Friday to apologize and address criticism that the automaker mishandled a crisis over sticking gas pedals. Yet he stopped short of ordering a recall for the company’s iconic Prius hybrid for braking problems.

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Gunmen kill 7 at Egypt church after Christmas Mass (AP)

AP - Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egypt as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by shooting, the church bishop and security officials said.

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Yemen official tells AP US troops not wanted (AP)

AP - As Yemen becomes the new front in the war on terror, its leaders want this to be clear: It does not intend to become another Iraq or Afghanistan with thousands of U.S. troops on the ground.

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