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DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria’s interior minister, who effectively controlled Lebanon (search) for two decades, was found dead in his office Wednesday, days before the release of a U.N. report that could implicate high-ranking officials in the murder of Lebanon’s former prime minister. The Syrian government called the death of Brig. …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – As U.S. military deaths in Iraq (search) approached 2,000 on Tuesday, the chief spokesman for the American-led multinational force called on reporters covering the conflict not to look at the event as a milestone. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force’s combined press center, …

WASHINGTON – The Senate began wrapping up consideration of a wide-ranging energy bill Thursday that its sponsors said would launch a new era of developing cleaner fossil fuels (search), expand the use of renewable energy and foster conservation. Senate leaders said they anticipated the bill could come to a vote …