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Report: Ireland oversaw harsh Catholic laundries
Ireland's government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor and usually against ...
Alleged Hezbollah attacks on Israel targets
Israel and others countries have accused Iran and Hezbollah of carrying out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets around the world. Hezbollah has ...
THE RESET: Kerry may push new Mideast peace effort
Nearly all American presidents since the 1970s have tried to broker peace deals in the Middle East. With John Kerry now at the State Department helm, ...
International officials discuss UN force for Mali
International officials said Tuesday they are discussing the possibility of using a U.N. force to provide long-term security in the troubled African ...
House opens first immigration hearing
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday the nation's immigration system is "in desperate need of repair" as he opened Congress' ...
Iran president visits Egypt in warming of ties
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed the crisis in Syria with his Egyptian counterpart Tuesday in the first visit by an Iranian leader to ...
French journalist held in Iraq questioned by judge
A defense lawyer says a French journalist held in Iraq for nearly two weeks has appeared before a judge in Baghdad. Nadir Dendoune was detained in the ...
Algerian border forces get shoot-on-sight orders
A high-ranking Algerian security official says troops guarding the country's border with Mali have been given shoot-on-sight orders against anyone who ...
Iran says nuclear talks with West on for Feb. 26
Iran has agreed to hold talks with six world powers in Kazakhstan on Feb. 26 over its nuclear program, Iranian state TV said Tuesday. The TV says the ...
Stolen giant cookie sculpture recovered in Germany
German police have recovered a cookie sculpture that may have been stolen by someone impersonating the Cookie Monster. Spokeswoman Jacobe Heers says ...
Danish critic of Islam says gunman shot at him
A gunman tried to shoot a Danish writer and prominent critic of Islam on Tuesday, but missed and fled after a scuffle with his intended victim, police ...
Russian wardens throw party for Stalin's gulag
Millions of people died in Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's gulag, but the 75th anniversary of the founding of one of the notorious forced-labor camps ...
UN report urges human rights probe of North Korea
The U.N. investigator for human rights in North Korea urged the world body Tuesday to open an inquiry into the secretive Asian nation for possible ...
Kuwait sentences 3 former MPs for emir insults
Three former Kuwaiti opposition lawmakers were sentenced to three years hard labor Tuesday for insulting the country's ruler in the latest crackdown ...
Rwanda dismayed by genocide court acquittals
Rwanda's top prosecutor on Tuesday expressed dismay over the International Criminal Tribunal's decision to acquit two former Cabinet ministers on ...
Obama to Kenya: Reject violence during election
Wading gently into the politics of his father's homeland, United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Kenya to reject violence in next ...
For Mali amputee, Islamic extremist legacy lingers
The Islamic extremists in Mali came to Issa Alzouma's cell and brought him out to the public square they had renamed Place de Shariah. They laid him ...
Bangladesh sentences Islamic party leader to life
A Bangladeshi tribunal prosecuting cases stemming from the 1971 independence war sentenced a leader of an Islamic opposition party to life in prison ...
2 soldiers killed in Nigeria oil delta attack
A military spokesman says two soldiers were killed in a shootout in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta involving a vessel operated by an Indian company
Ultranationalists angry over Serbia-Kosovo meeting
Serbian ultranationalists held a rally on Tuesday to accuse their country's president of treason for agreeing to hold talks with the president of ...
Ivory Coast extradites 2 former Gbagbo officials
A spokeswoman for Ivory Coast's civilian prosecutor says that a former security official and a former student leader allied with ex-President Laurent ...
Another partner leaves Slovenia gov't
Another junior partner is leaving Slovenia's coalition government, adding to the political turmoil in the small, economically troubled European Union ...
Iran detains more journalists over links with BBC
Iran's official news agency is reporting authorities have arrested another group of local journalists accused of links with the BBC. The report by ...