
Abby Sewell
News Director, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq at Associated Press
News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at @ap, formerly @lorienttoday, @DailyStarLeb, @latimes. Contact asewell@ https://t.co/MJlihKiBDf
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castanet.net | Danica Coto |Mehmet Guzel |Marcia Dunn |Abby Sewell
Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met Monday for their second round of direct peace talks in just over two weeks, but aside from agreeing to swap thousands of their dead and seriously wounded troops, they made no progress toward ending the 3-year-old war, officials said.
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castanet.net | Danica Coto |Marcia Dunn |Mehmet Guzel |Abby Sewell
A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The cloud extended some 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean, and some 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern Caribbean down south to Trinidad and Tobago. “It’s very impressive,” said Alex DaSilva, lead hurricane expert with AccuWeather.
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sfgate.com | Abby Sewell
This projector rivals the quality of most TVs and can even be used outside. It comes with a PowerBase stand and is 18% off today.
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apnews.com | Abby Sewell
BEIRUT (AP) — Un sistema de miles de crestas y canales a lo largo de una llanura aluvial en el sur de Irak ha sido durante mucho tiempo considerado como el remanente de un sistema agrícola masivo construido por mano de obra esclava. Ahora, un equipo internacional de arqueólogos ha encontrado nueva evidencia que respalda la teoría.
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castanet.net | Marcia Dunn |Mehmet Guzel |Abby Sewell |Amanda Seitz
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a 50-50 chance within the next 10 billion years. That’s essentially a coin flip, but still better odds than previous estimates and farther out in time.
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