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May 7, 2013
1:29 pm

This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (photo credit: AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)

Bulgarian honor bid in DC stirs Holocaust debate

Street-naming controversy underscores difficulty reconciling heroic individual deeds with the record of a nation as a whole

By Eric Tucker and Randy Herschaft

March 17, 2013
12:50 pm

Mohammed Rashed, center, convicted of the 1982 Pan Am jetliner bombing, listens to his unidentified PLO interpreter, left, during his appeals court hearing in Athens, Greece in December 1991 (photo credit: AP/Aris Saris, File)

Palestinian airline bomber to be released from US prison

Man who placed explosive device on Pan Am flight to Hawaii goes free after 20 years

By Eric Tucker and Randy Herschaft

August 13, 2012
9:46 pm

Wife of 71-year-old Jewish man abducted in Pakistan urges return, year after capture

Fears for health under al-Qaida captivity; White House refuses to negotiate

By Eric Tucker