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• Mothers in uniform get room on base to nurse young
• Rafsanjani rolls the dice one last time to fix Iran's future
• Egypt arrests 3 suspected al-Qaida militants
• Factbox: Contenders in Iranian presidential election
• Weak labor market awaits Class of 2013
• Iran nuclear negotiator Jalili enters presidential contest: IRNA
• Suicide tanker truck kills 3 people in Iraq
• Wounded Syrians show signs of chemical attack, Turkey says
• Schweitzer courts unions as he considers 2014
• ‘To My Comrades in Arms’: Prince Harry Honors Fallen Heroes at Arlington National Cemetery
• April surplus of $113B lowers US budget deficit

Mothers in uniform get room on base to nurse young Posted: 11 May 2013 03:23 PM PDT SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AP) — Army civilian personnel specialist Tracey Leven recalls the time she tried to use a breast pump to express milk in a military office years ago. Instead of "breast pump in use," she was required to put a sign on the door reading, "occupied." That didn't stop two male soldiers from using their keys to open the locked office.

Rafsanjani rolls the dice one last time to fix Iran's future Posted: 11 May 2013 11:10 AM PDT By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's best known political grandee, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, looms large in the history of the Islamic Republic - now registered to run in Iran's presidential election next month he may also get the chance to carve out its future. Few have wielded such influence in modern Iran as the 78-year-old but since 2009 he and his family have faced political isolation over their support for the opposition movement which lost the disputed election to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...

Egypt arrests 3 suspected al-Qaida militants Posted: 11 May 2013 11:05 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interior minister said Saturday that security authorities have arrested three suspected al-Qaida-linked militants who were planning to carry out suicide attacks on vital installations and an unspecified foreign embassy.

Factbox: Contenders in Iranian presidential election Posted: 11 May 2013 10:02 AM PDT (Reuters) - Following are brief details of leading candidates for Iran's June 14 presidential election, for which registration closed on Saturday. AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI: The centrist Rafsanjani, an important figure since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, was president from 1989 to 1997. He earned the ire of hardliners after he sided with reformists during the unrest that followed the disputed 2009 election, and has seen two of his children jailed in recent months. ...

Weak labor market awaits Class of 2013 Posted: 11 May 2013 07:45 AM PDT By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stacey Kalivas should be celebrating her graduation from college later this week. Instead, the 22 year-old is getting ready to move back home with broken dreams and in debt. Kalivas is a member of the class of 2013, the fifth successive wave of students to enter into a stubbornly weak U.S. labor market - marked by high unemployment, a large number of part-time workers and many who have given up the hunt for jobs. "It's kind of tough to be graduating and not having anything," said Kalivas. ...

Iran nuclear negotiator Jalili enters presidential contest: IRNA Posted: 11 May 2013 05:06 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has registered to run for president in the Islamic Republic's June 14 election, the state news agency IRNA said on Saturday. Jalili, a veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, has since 2007 headed Iran's Supreme National Security Council and is regarded as a hardline conservative close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Jalili's candidacy must still be approved by the conservative body of clerics and jurists known as the Guardian Council, which is expected to issue a final list of approved candidates in 10 days' time. ...

Suicide tanker truck kills 3 people in Iraq Posted: 11 May 2013 04:25 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say that a suicide tanker truck packed with explosives blew up outside the home of an army intelligence officer, killing three people and wounding 18 others in the country's north.

Wounded Syrians show signs of chemical attack, Turkey says Posted: 10 May 2013 10:20 PM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian casualties treated in Turkey show signs of being victims of chemical weapons, the Turkish foreign minister said on Friday, adding to indications that President Barack Obama's "red line" on the use of such arms may have been crossed. Wary of the false intelligence used to justify the 2003 war in Iraq, the United States says it wants proof that chemical weapons have been used before taking any action in Syria. ...

Schweitzer courts unions as he considers 2014 Posted: 10 May 2013 08:18 PM PDT BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told a gathering of union leaders Friday that he has not decided on a possible run for U.S. Senate in 2014, but indicated he would need their support if he does.

‘To My Comrades in Arms’: Prince Harry Honors Fallen Heroes at Arlington National Cemetery Posted: 10 May 2013 05:49 PM PDT The British Army captain who has served twice in Afghanistan.

April surplus of $113B lowers US budget deficit Posted: 10 May 2013 01:31 PM PDT The U.S. government reported a rare surplus of $113 billion for April — the largest in five years and a sign of the nation's improving finances. Steady economic growth and higher tax rates have boosted ...

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