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Violence in Northern Ireland for 3rd day over flag
Northern Ireland police used water cannons to fend off brick-hurling protesters in Belfast on Saturday as violent demonstrations over flying the ...
Syrian forces bombard rebel areas near capital
Syrian government warplanes and artillery pounded restive suburbs of Damascus on Friday and anti-regime activists said a car bomb targeted an ...
Different challenges in Central African Rep., Mali
Two land-locked, desperately poor African countries are gripped by rebellions in the north that have left huge chunks of both nations outside of ...
C. African Republic leader fires son from post
Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, the president of Central African Republic consolidated military power under his control Thursday after ...
Rebel area shows limits of rebel push for Damascus
Twin airstrikes by government jets on a large, rebel-held suburb of Damascus on Thursday sheered the sides off apartment towers and left residents ...
Blasts aimed at Iraqi Shiites, police kill 23
Insurgents launched a wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday, primarily targeting Shiite communities and pilgrims and killing at least 23 people, ...
North African nations take different reform routes
Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, ...
African Union head visits Central African Republic
The leader of the African Union, Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi, has proposed a government of national unity to resolve the rebel conflict in ...
Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies in Rome
Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping ...
Syrian airline cancels flight to Aleppo
Syria's national airline canceled a flight to Aleppo on Saturday because of fighting near its international airport, while the United Nations top ...
Central African Republic rebels take another city
Rebels continued their advance on Saturday, seizing the city of Sibut, 185 kilometers (114 miles) from Bangui, the capital, a government official ...
At least 15 killed in sect attack in north Nigeria
Gunmen suspected to belong to a radical Islamist sect attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, tying up men, women and children before slitting their ...
Myanmar Muslims recall Buddhist assault
Stranded beside their decrepit flotilla of wooden boats, on a muddy beach far from home, the Muslim refugees tell story after terrifying story of ...
C. African Republic neighbors to send help
Central African Republic's neighbors agreed on Friday to dispatch a contingent of soldiers to intervene in the troubled country, where a coalition of ...
Rebels besiege airports in northern Syria
Syrian rebels stepped up their siege of a government helicopter base and clashed with soldiers near Aleppo's international airport on Friday, part of ...
Correction: Vatican-Christmas Shopping story
In a story Dec. 23 about the Vatican's tax-free department store, The Associated Press erroneously reported that online cigar retailer www.
Pakistan seeks help to rescue 23 missing police
Pakistani officials pressured tribal elders Friday to help rescue 23 policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban during attacks on their ...
Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money
The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: ...
Pakistan: Bhutto's son launches political career
The 24-year-old son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto launched his political career Thursday with a fiery speech before thousands of ...
Indian land program shows tech's limits
For years, Karnataka's land records were a quagmire of disputed, forged documents maintained by thousands of tyrannical bureaucrats who demanded ...
UN envoy worried after talks with Syria's Assad
The international envoy to Syria said after talks with the country's leader Monday that the situation was "worrying" and gave no indication of ...
Car bomb defused outside Spanish megabrothel
A car bomb was defused in a megabrothel's parking lot in northeast Spain early Monday and 300 people were evacuated from the site, the Interior ...
Syria jets kill tens as international envoy visits
A government airstrike Sunday on a bakery in a rebel-held town in central Syria killed more than 60 people, activists said, casting a pall over a ...