$80B plan would lift spending caps, raise debt ceiling, avert any fiscal showdowns until 2017
Raid takes place in mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, with security officials saying five police officers were wounded and 12 militants captured
Investigators say they plan to exhume remains of Tsar Alexander III at request of Orthodox Church, the latest twist in macabre effort to authenticate remains of his son, the murdered last tsar, his slain children
US has consistently rejected proposals to provide advanced shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles to rebel groups, citing damage they could do in wrong hands
Destroyer USS Lassen, likely partnered with a surveillance plane, will patrol withing 12 nautical miles of Spratly archipelago
Hardest hit area reported is Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhaw province, where officials have confirmed at least 140 people killed and more than 1,000 injured
Footage, which some call propaganda, was released by the Kurdistan Region Security Council following joint Kurdish-US raid
Local officials say Jaghatu District chief Mohammad Daud on his way to provincial capital early Thursday when militants ambushed his vehicle
Young woman arrives in Europe only after giving birth on a German Navy frigate in middle of Mediterranean
White House is trying to pressure Pakistan to play a major role in Washington's newly revised plans to end 14-year war in Afghanistan
They'll confer Friday in Vienna and will later be joined by the foreign ministers of Turkey and Saudi Arabia and a UN representative
Requests for gun permits reportedly have skyrocketed by 5,000 percent
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