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MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister said Friday that Syria’s withdrawal from Lebanon (search) should also include the pullout of intelligence agents. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow was closely watching the Syrian troop movements into Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley (search). “We are examining the recent development of events,” Lavrov said …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Ukraine withdrew 150 servicemen from Iraq on Saturday, beginning a gradual pullout, as Shiite and Kurdish politicians refined plans to form a coalition government that officials said includes an agreement not to turn the country into an Islamic state. In Mosul (search), gunmen killed three policemen and …

TOKYO – Five bodies were found Wednesday in a car parked by a river in western Japan (search) in what apparently was the latest in a slew of group suicides, police said. The four men and a woman, all of them believed to be in their 20s, were found slumped …