| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | General strike snarls Spanish capital | | Huge traffic jams snarled central Madrid Thursday, as Spain's first general strike in more than a year kicked off with nine people slightly injured in demonstrations, including police officers, the Interior Ministry said. |
| Syrians wary as leaders plan to meet | | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins world leaders this week in the latest effort to end bloodshed in Syria as pressure mounts for the nation's embattled leader to implement a peace deal. |
| No U.S. access to Afghan killing sites | | U.S. military officials have yet to gain access to the sites in which 17 Afghans were killed in Kandahar, an obstacle that could impede efforts to prosecute the American soldier accused of the multiple homicides. |
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