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AMMAN, Jordan – The United Nations (search) expects Syrian President Bashar Assad (search) to produce a timetable for the full withdrawal of Syrian troops and intelligence officers from Lebanon, U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said Friday. Speaking in Amman, where he sought Jordanian support for a U.N. Security Council resolution calling …

ARLINGTON, Va. – A grieving father is trying to gather the facts behind an uprising on Nov. 25, 2001, at the makeshift prison in Afghanistan where CIA officer Johnny Micheal “Mike” Spann (search) became the first American casualty of the Afghan war. Johnny Spann, a 56-year-old real estate company owner …

NEW YORK – The Swiss company at the heart of a new report on the oil-for-food scandal (search) repeatedly lied about its links to Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s (search) son, one investigator said, going much further in his criticism than the document itself. The investigator, Mark Pieth, also rejected Annan’s declaration …