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JERUSALEM – Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Cabinet on Sunday that the army’s current offensive is not an invasion of Lebanon, but rather a series of limited raids into the area. Peretz also said that Israel would accept a temporary international force, preferably headed by NATO, deployed along the …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Federal prosecutors accused a former U.S. soldier Monday of raping and murdering a young Iraqi woman and gunning down her family, all of whose bodies were found burned in an apparent cover-up. Steven D. Green, a 21-year-old former Army private first class who was recently discharged because …

NEW YORK – U.S. mortgage applications rose for a second consecutive week, driven by increased demand for home purchase loans as interest rates remained near a recent four-year high, an industry trade group said on Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity for …