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Indonesia search underway for plane missing with 10 aboard

Associated Press, Jakarta | Sat, 10/03/2015 12:07 PM

An air and ground search was underway Saturday for a small passenger plane that went missing with 10 people on board during a domestic flight in eastern Indonesia.
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Bush, Clinton display the political divide over gun control

Bill Barrow and Sergio Bustos, Associated Press, Greenville, South Carolina | Sat, 10/03/2015 11:12 AM

Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush and other Republicans declared their opposition to stiffer gun laws Friday in the aftermath of the Oregon college mass shooting, while Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton…
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France tells Putin to confine airstrikes to Islamic State

Nataliya Vasilyeva and Sylvia Corbet, Associated Press, Paris | Sat, 10/03/2015 10:45 AM

With Russian warplanes bombing Syria for a third day, French President Francois Hollande told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that Moscow's airstrikes must be confined to attacking Islamic State militants,…
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Russian, Ukrainian leaders hold talks in Paris

Nataliya Vasilyeva and Sylvia Corbet, Associated Press, Paris | Sat, 10/03/2015 9:58 AM

A summit reviving a European push to bring peace to eastern Ukraine ended Friday with a call for the delay of contentious rebel plans to hold local elections this month…
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Shell, Total get first foreign gas stations in Iran

Associated Press, Tehran | Fri, 10/02/2015 10:15 PM

Iran's state TV is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell and France's Total will be the first foreign companies to be allowed to operate gasoline stations inside Iran.
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Yemen cuts ties with Iran after Bahrain expels Iran diplomat

Ahmed Al-Haj, Associated Press, Cairo | Fri, 10/02/2015 9:57 PM

Yemen's internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi cut diplomatic ties with Iran, which it says arms and trains the country's Shiite rebels, a senior Foreign Ministry official…
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