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New UN, international efforts to engage Iran
International officials pursued a two-pronged effort Wednesday to engage Iran over concerns the country may have worked on nuclear weapons, with a U.N
China's party paper falls for Onion joke about Kim
The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man ...
Israel, militants begin talks on truce details
Israel and Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip began indirect talks Monday in Egypt aimed at forging a new era of relations between the bitter ...
Pakistan condemns Israeli 'aggression' in Gaza
Pakistan's foreign minister has condemned what he calls Israel's "aggression" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Hina Rabanni Khar spoke ...
Iran's Ahmadinejad ridicules expense of US vote
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ridiculed the expense of the U.S. election, mocking it as a "battleground for capitalists" while speaking at a ...
Iran hikes domestic airfares by up to 70 percent
Iranian local airlines have increased their airfares by up to 70 percent amid Western sanctions on the oil and banking system, the official IRNA news ...
9 Iranian female prisoners go on hunger strike
At least nine Iranian women political prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest snap body searches and abuse by prison guards at the main ...
German lawmakers hope to push Iran on human rights
Three German lawmakers are planning to travel to Iran later this week to discuss with officials the "striking human rights abuses" in the country, one ...
Airstrikes in northern Syria kill at least 43
Syrian warplanes hammered a strategic city captured by rebels, leaving behind scenes of carnage captured Thursday on amateur videos that showed a man ...
Syria conflict deepens sectarian rifts in Lebanon
This Lebanese border town has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened ...
Iran leader calls Netanyahu's bomb prop 'childish'
Iran's president sneered on Tuesday at Israeli's presentation at the United Nations last week, calling the cartoon-style drawing of a bomb held up by ...
UN troubled by Iran 'clampdown' on freedom, rights
The U.N. human rights office says it is deeply worried that Iran is cracking down on human rights activists, lawyers and journalists. Rupert Colville, ...
Iran: Reuters chief convicted in 'ninja' dispute
A special media court found the Tehran bureau chief of the Thomson Reuters news agency guilty Sunday of "spreading lies" against the Islamic system ...
UN chief demands global action to end war in Syria
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanded international action to stop the war in Syria, telling a somber gathering of world leaders Tuesday that the ...
UN envoy: Syria war is threatening the region
Syria's civil war is worsening and there is no prospect of a quick end to the violence, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday in a gloomy ...
Free speech 'red lines' feed Muslim film rage
In U.S.-funded ads running on Pakistani TV, subtitled clips show President Barack Obama extolling America's traditions of religious freedom. For many ...
Iran takes aim at US and Israel at UN meeting
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is taking aim at the United States and Israel at a high-level U.N. meeting, accusing Washington of shielding what ...
Prophet film protesters clash with Greek police
Greek riot police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse Muslim protesters who clashed with officers Sunday during a rally against a film produced ...
Iran detains centrist ex-president's daughter
Iran's official news agency says authorities have detained the daughter of influential ex-president and political centrist Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
PHOTOS: Latest in protests of anti-Islam film
A look at Friday's protests and events connected to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," produced in the United States, and vulgar caricatures ...
Pakistan hit by deadly riots over anti-Muslim film
Pakistan's "Day of Love for the Prophet" turned into a deadly day of gunfire, tear gas and arson. Thousands angered by an anti-Muslim film ignored ...
Latest developments in protest of anti-Islam film
Here's a look at protests and events across the world on Friday connected to an amateurish anti-Muslim film produced in the United States and vulgar ...
Iran shows off new air defense system
Iran on Friday displayed a new, all-Iranian-made air defense system, saying it was designed to confront American warplanes in case of a U.S.