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BOSTON – A Boston businessman’s proposal to build a 1,000-foot, 75-story glass-and-steel building that would tower over all others is a bold move in a city that favors colonial era church steeples over skyscrapers. Steve Belkin’s proposed tower would top the city’s current tallest building by more than 200 feet …

BAGHDAD – Despite reports that Syria denounced a violent U.S. Special Operations raid that took place near the Iraq border last week, intelligence officials in Damascus may have approved the attack, the London Times reports. The operation, which was intended to be fast and bloodless, was meant to target Al …

WASHINGTON – Fresh off presiding over a global financial summit, President George W. Bush on Sunday conferred privately about the world’s economic downturn with the leader of a wealthy Persian Gulf emirate. Bush was hosting Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, at the president’s …