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Police in Ontario finish search for body parts
Police on Saturday ended their search for more body parts after the discovery of a woman's torso in the Niagara River. Niagara Regional Police said ...
Islamist rebels seize control of Douentza
Islamic extremists seized control of the strategic town of Douentza on Saturday, moving much closer to government-held territory in central Mali, ...
New UN Syria envoy puts pressure on regime
The U.N.'s new envoy to Syria told President Bashar Assad's regime on Saturday that change is both "urgent" and "necessary" and that it must meet the ...
Ugandan army seizes base of Lord's Resistance Army
The Ugandan army destroyed a base of a key general of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic. Ugandan Army Colonel Milton ...
Navy scans ocean for 36 missing off Guinea coast
The Guinean navy is scouring the coast off of Guinea's capital, Conakry, looking for around 36 people still missing after their overloaded canoe ...
Egypt: Top militant arrested in Sinai
Egypt said Saturday that it had arrested a high-level Islamist militant convicted of killing troops in the Sinai Peninsula, vowing to keep up military ...
Bahrain: Iran translation sidestepped Syria
Bahrain says it has filed a formal protest with Iran over a broadcast translation that wrongly substituted Bahrain for Syria in a speech by Egypt's ...
Usher puts personal troubles behind him
Usher's had a turbulent few months, but now he's back where he belongs — on stage. On Saturday, the R&B singer kicks off the iTunes Festival in ...
A test looms for Egypt's new leader: Garbage
The pile of trash overwhelmed the median divider on Ahmed Zaki Street and spilled into oncoming traffic — egg shells, rotten eggplants, soiled ...
Angola: Ruling party wins election
Preliminary results show that Angola's ruling party has won 75 percent of the national vote, assuring President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, in power for ...
Iran: Bushehr reactor reaches full capacity
Iran's sole operational nuclear power reactor has reached full capacity, a senior official said Saturday. Iran's deputy nuclear chief, Mohammad ...
Somali Pirates kill hostage over delayed ransom
Somali pirates who have been holding a hijacked ship for nearly two years killed a Syrian hostage crew member and wounded another to protest delayed ...
Egypt presenter denies inciting president killing
A popular Egyptian TV presenter accused of inciting the killing of the country's new president on air denied the charges at the opening of his trial ...
Togo: Police question former Interior Minister
Security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Lome demanding the release of Pascal Bodjona, Togo's former Interior Minister ...
Protests decry Spain cuts to immigrant health care
Some 300 people blocked a ring road in the Spanish capital Saturday to protest spending cuts that will leave large numbers of illegal immigrants ...
Fugitive US businessman returned to Dubai
A fugitive American businessman fighting fiscal corruption charges in Dubai has been returned to the United Arab Emirates after fleeing to Yemen, a ...
Jordan, UN appeal for $700M to aid Syrian refugees
Jordan and the U.N.'s refugee agency issued an urgent call to international donors on Saturday for $700 million to handle the rapidly rising number ...
Clinton: US committed to security in Asia-Pacific
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday pledged renewed American commitment to security in the Asia-Pacific, where tensions are ...
Japan officials to visit disputed islands
Tokyo city officials intending to buy tiny islands at the center of a longtime territorial dispute with China left by boat on Saturday to survey the ...
US drone strike kills 5 militants in Pakistan
U.S. drones fired a barrage of missiles at a vehicle and a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least five ...
Russian FM: All sides should stop Syria violence
Russia's foreign minister is urging other countries to try to persuade all sides in the Syrian conflict to stop the violence. Sergey Lavrov said ...
Tropical Storm Leslie strengthens some
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Leslie has strengthened some in the Atlantic, while Tropical Storm Ileana has weakened in the eastern Pacific and ...
Filipino villagers return home after quake; 1 dead
Thousands of villagers who fled their coastal homes during a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines returned home Saturday, but hundreds more ...
Double suicide attack kills 12 in Afghanistan
Two suicide attackers, one driving a fuel tanker, blew themselves up near a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, ...
Miniature Yugoslavia on verge of vanishing
Blasko Gabric and his friends found it hard to cope with the collapse of Yugoslavia, so they made a miniature one of their own. Now, they could lose ...