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counter meant no one was declaring it a success yet.
• And U.S. officials familiar with Clinton's last-minute diplomatic shuttling warned against making any judgments until the cease-fire proves to hold.
• The U.S. is counting on Morsi to shepherd the peace. The former Muslim Brotherhood leader emerged from his first major international crisis with enhanced prestige and now has a track record as someone who can mediate between the two sworn enemies, something the United States cannot do because it considers Hamas a terrorist organization and doesn't allow contacts between its members and American officials.
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian warplanes flattened a building next to a hospital in Aleppo, killing at least 15 people and damaging one of the last remaining sources of medical help for civilians in the northern city, activists said Thursday.
• Once a private clinic owned by a businessman loyal to President Bashar Assad, the Dar al-Shifa hospital became a field hospital run by volunteer doctors, nurses and aides united by their opposition to the regime and the need to give medical care to both civilians and rebels.
• The facility has taken at least six direct hits in recent months, mostly affecting the upper stories.
• On Wednesday night, warplanes bombed a building adjacent to the hospital, turning it into a pile of rubble and spraying shrapnel and debris into Dar al-Shifa itself, activists said.
• Rami Abdul-Rahman, chief of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said at least 11 fighters were killed in the airstrike, in addition to a doctor, a young girl and two children who were on the street.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wild weather is taking a toll on roads, airports, railways and transit systems across the country.
• That's leaving states and cities searching for ways to brace for more catastrophes like Superstorm Sandy that are straining the nation's transportation lifelines be

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