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** FILE ** A small group of Nepal Youth Front, the student organization of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), hold their flags and shout slogans during a protest against the hike of fuel prices in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. The state-owned Nepal Oil Corp. Sunday announced the rise in prices, which came into effect Monday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

State Department drops Maoists from terrorist watch list

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Newly-appointed Egyptian Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

State Dept. says it’s not involved in Egyptian military changes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

**FILE** The string of islands known as Senkaku islands in Japanese, and Diaoyu in Chinese, are seen here Sept. 29, 2010. Relations between China and Japan were strained when a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels earlier that month near the islands in the East China Sea that are claimed by both countries as well as Taiwan. (Associated Press)

China to U.S.: ‘Shut up,’ butt out of territorial disputes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In early 2010, a boy led the hard-line Islamist al-Shabab fighters as they conducted military exercise in Somalia. The country’s continuous violence appears to have increased recruiting efforts of young fighters, who are easily indoctrinated. (Associated Press)

U.S. gives military aid to nations with child soldiers

By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

Inside Politics: Reid goes green at Vegas resort

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

Iraq’s threat to close MeK camp worries White House

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Christopher H. Smith (Associated Press)

Top human traffickers need not fear Obama

By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

In this October, 2001 file photo the Pyotr Velikiy, Peter the Great, Russian nuclear-powered missile cruiser seen near Severomorsk, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Russia seeks sea power with decrepit fleet

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this citizen journalist image, smoke billows July 18, 2012, over Damascus, Syria, after a bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting and killed three top regime officials, including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law. (Associated Press)

Washington worried over Syria attack

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Author of essay on career and family writing book

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Illustration: Iranian hostages by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

ALTON: Crisis brewing in Liberty

By Lord David Alton

The Washington Times

WEISS: Sweeping religious persecution under the rug

By Deborah Weiss

A Guatemalan policeman takes notes on about helicopter that crashed 124 miles northwest of Guatemala City in 2003 while transporting 1,675 pounds of cocaine. (Associated Press)

Central America next drug hot spot

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syria joins 16 others as human-trafficking worst

By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

Official: No decision yet on Iranian dissidents

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

**FILE** An irrigation pivot remains along a highway several miles near the proposed new route for the Keystone XL pipeline in Neligh, Neb. (Associated Press)

GOP sees roadblock to Keystone pipeline

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks June 15, 2012, at a news conference in Moscow. (Associated Press)

Russia denies discussing Syria’s post-Assad future

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

CARDENAS: Open for drug business

By Jose R. Cardenas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (Associated Press)

Court gives Clinton four months to decide on MEK terror label

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

**FILE** Officers of the urban management bureau, known as chengguan in Chinese, demand Nov. 20, 2011, a beggar and his child leave a street in Guiyang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. (Associated Press)

Rights report hails Arab Spring, scolds North Korea, Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times