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U.S. slow to deliver promised aid to Syrian rebels

While State Department officials are fond of saying they’re providing hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the Syrian opposition, only a fraction of the promised funds has arrived, and none has gone to the political body the U.S. looks to as an alternative to President Bashar ...
WORLD

Venezuela: Plane that disappeared in '08 found

Venezuelan authorities say the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared five years ago with 14 people aboard has been found.
WORLD

Voices from within Brazil's protests

Some comments by Brazilians participating in protests across South America's biggest country:
WORLD

Few options for Brazil leader in face of protests

With massive protests by middle-class Brazilians demanding wholesale government reforms, people all over this continent-sized country have reached a verdict on the streets and online: "The giant has awakened."
SPORTS

Brazil officials reverse subway, bus fare hike

Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests that have spread across the nation in the past week.
WORLD

John Paul II moves a step closer to sainthood

Pope John Paul II has moved a step closer to sainthood.
WORLD

US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects

Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants.
WORLD

Magnitude-5.7 quake shakes central Chile

A magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital but apparently causing no major damage.
WORLD

Bus falls into river in Peru, killing at least 30

Police in central Peru say a bus veered off a highway and fell into a river, leaving at least 30 people dead and nine missing.
WORLD

Kerry calls Karzai after Afghans bow out of talks with Taliban

Less than a day after the Taliban opened a new political office in Qatar, the prospects for peace talks that it represented for war-weary Afghanistan faltered.