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Some unions now angry about health care overhaul

When President Barack Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters. But some unions leaders have grown frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected consequences of the new law — problems that they say could jeopardize the health benefits ...

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2005 file photo, Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed gestures while talking to the media, in Beirut, Lebanon. The slaying of a British soldier in east London cast a spotlight on radical preachers that influenced Michael Adebolajo, the attacker seen in videos with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife. It also raised questions about the reach of the terrorist group al-Shabab, after a British government official said one of the two men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the group.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Attack casts spotlight on radical preachers

The slaying of a British soldier in southeast London cast a spotlight on radical preachers that influenced Michael Adebolajo, the attacker seen in videos with bloody hands holding a butcher knife. It also raised questions about the reach of the terrorist group al-Shabab, after a British government official said one ...

Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge

During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer easy-to-understand, color-coded maps and change the way they talk to the public. ...

FILE - In this May 7, 2013 file photo Austrian Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger from the Austrian People's Party speaks during a press conference after the weekly cabinet meeting at the federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria. Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger called Friday May 24, 2013  for an extension of the arms embargo for Syria ahead of an EU meeting on the issue, saying his country would have to rethink  its U.N. peacekeeping role in the region otherwise. Austria's 377 soldiers make up the majority of the approximately 900 U.N. peacekeepers posted to the Golan Heights separating Syria and Israel. Spindelegger told The Associated Press that they could be targeted by Syrian government forces if EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels Monday decided to allow members to ship arms to rebels trying to topple President Bashir Assad.  (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Austria wants EU arms embargo to Syria extended

The European Union's arms embargo to Syria should be extended while a political solution is sought in its civil war and to maintain the safety of U.N. peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, Austria's foreign minister said Friday. Austria's 377 soldiers make up the largest contingent of the approximately 900 U.N. ...

French President Francois Hollande leaves the ceremony to mark the 150th birthday of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, Thursday  May 23,  2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Jan Woitas)

France won't force companies to cap executive pay

The French government is trying to woo executives and entrepreneurs, amid concerns that it has antagonized the businesses needed to reinvigorate the economy. Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici announced Friday that the government no longer plans to push for a law to cap executive salaries in the private sector. Instead, Moscovici ...

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