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Rwanda lawmakers voted Friday to abolish capital punishment. Once law, the decision could speed up the extradition of genocide suspects to face trial back in Rwanda. But the decision has not been universally welcomed in the small, central African nation.

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In the current issue of Boston Review, former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix argues that it might be easier to persuade Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program if the United States would do the same.

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It's been 40 years since the Six Day War, a conflict between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. One of the lesser-known incidents of the in 1967 conflict involved an Israeli attack on a U.S. spy ship, killing 34 Americans. Some of the survivors -- who are still angry -- spoke with Michele Keleman at a reunion this week in Northern Virginia.

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A suicide bomber driving a tanker truck strikes an Iraqi army checkpoint outside the capital, killing at least 13 soldiers.

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