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Shot Armenia presidential hopeful seeks vote delay
The shooting of a presidential candidate threw Armenia's election into disarray Friday, with the wounded victim saying he will call for a delay of the ...
At palace, Egypt protesters, police clash
Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security ...
33 die in Mexico oil company office building blast
A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath ...
Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a ...
Syrian rebels slam Assad inaction on Israeli raid
Syrian opposition leaders and rebels on Friday slammed President Bashar Assad for not responding to a rare Israeli airstrike near Damascus, calling ...
Clinton formally resigns as secretary of state
Hillary Rodham Clinton has formally resigned as America's 67th secretary of state, capping a four-year tenure in the office that saw her shatter ...
Film blocked in Italy during election campaign
Producers of a documentary that takes a sharply critical view of the political, economic and social trends in Italy in recent decades are protesting ...
Canadian officer apologizes to family for spying
A Canadian navy intelligence officer who pleaded guilty to selling military secrets to Russia apologized to his family and children for the pain he ...
Milan court convicts 3 Americans in CIA kidnapping
A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 ...
Russian WWII vet recalls the Battle of Stalingrad
The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 ...
French leader to visit Mali, talk of troop levels
President Francois Hollande says he'll suggest when France will reduce troop levels in Mali during a trip there Saturday, nearly four weeks after a ...
VA report: 22 veterans commit suicide each day
The number of veterans who commit suicide each day is more than 20 percent higher than the Department of Veterans Affairs has previously estimated, ...
White House: US embassy attack 'an act of terror'
White House press secretary Jay Carney is calling the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey "an act of terror." The president's spokesman says ...
Iraq Sunnis protest; al-Qaida front calls to arms
Tens of thousands of Sunni protesters blocked a major highway in western Iraq on Friday, as an al-Qaida-affiliated group called on Sunnis to take up ...
Report: US job market looks surprisingly strong
The U.S. job market is proving surprisingly strong and raising hopes that the economy will be resilient enough this year to withstand a budget ...
Dutch state nationalizes SNS Reaal bank
The Netherlands nationalized its fourth-largest bank on Friday, injecting €2.2 billion ($3 billion) to recapitalize SNS Reaal NV and head off any ...
Maradona's lawyers warned over claims of tax win
Italy's tax collection agency has threatened to sue lawyers for Diego Maradona who claimed he won his 20-year battle over tax debts. Maradona lawyer ...
Rare good news for eurozone economy
Mention it quietly, but there were rare hopeful signs for Europe's struggling economy on Friday. Three pieces of economic news for the 17 European ...
8 Dortmund fans banned for flying neo-Nazi banners
Eight Borussia Dortmund fans who displayed neo-Nazi banners during a game have been banned from attending Sunday's Bundesliga match at Bayer ...