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VIENNA – Austria has stopped processing new asylum requests while continuing to deport refugees. State-run broadcaster ORF cites an Interior Ministry document that it says was issued Friday to civil servants dealing with asylum requests telling them not to accept new cases. ORF says the document instructs relevant departments to …

BERLIN – The U.N.’s special envoy for Syria says he has accepted an invitation from the government to travel to Damascus for talks with officials there. The office of Staffan de Mistura said Sunday that he wanted to give the Syrian government the opportunity to express their views about the …

I was in the East Room of the White House on August 9, 1974, standing along the wall while Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, said farewell to the staff. After his maudlin and rambling remarks, I shuffled, zombie-like,with the rest of the White House staffers, just behind …