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Jordan: Arab Spring clears way for press freedoms
The Arab Spring uprisings that toppled four Arab leaders have forced Mideast governments to allow more freedom of expression and of the press, ...
State Dept: Reports of anti-Semitism increase
The State Department has appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of ...
Explosions kill 4 in Russia's restive Dagestan
Two bombs exploded outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens of ...
M23 rebels clash with soldiers in eastern Congo
Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use ...
Uganda police raid newspaper over general's letter
Ugandan police disabled an independent newspaper's printing press after forcibly entering its premises to look for evidence against an army general ...
Postponed US long-range missile test due Tuesday
The Air Force says its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had postponed in April because of ...
German FM criticizes remarks by Hungarian PM
It started out simple enough: German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized constitutional changes that have been made in Hungary. But Hungary's leader ...
Seoul: Day 3 of NKorea tests of short-range weapon
North Korea continued firing short-range weapons over its own eastern waters Monday after a weekend of what it called "rocket launching tests" ...
Retired Anglican priest jailed for sex abuse
A retired Church of England priest was jailed for 10 years Monday after a jury found him guilty of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the ...
NYC: No racial motivation in stop-frisk tactic
The federal civil rights challenge to the contentious New York Police Department tactic of stop, question and frisk is winding down after more than ...
High court to weigh in on legislative prayers
The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public ...
Russia claims to have foiled possible terror act
Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it killed two militants it believes were planning a terrorist act in Moscow and detained a third. The National ...
Iran election overseers may bar former president
Iran's election overseers said Monday they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election, a reference ...
Pakistan's presumptive PM calls for Taliban talks
Pakistan's presumptive prime minister has called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government. Nawaz Sharif said in a speech ...
Riots in Stockholm suburb over police shooting
Gangs of youth angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man in a mainly immigrant neighborhood hurled rocks at police and set cars and ...
Activists say 28 Hezbollah members killed in Syria
Fierce street fighting in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border has killed at least 28 elite members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, activists ...
Czech president in dispute over gay rights
Czech President Milos Zeman is being criticized for refusing to grant a university professorship — the nation's top academic title — to a critic of ...
Suicide bomber kills 14 at Afghan province council
A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people including a prominent provincial council chief outside the council headquarters in ...
Wave of attacks kills at least 86 in Iraq
A wave of attacks killed at least 86 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to ...
Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead
Suspected foreign fighters backing a rebel movement now in control of Central African Republic's government invaded a remote north-central village and ...
Saudi women teachers demanding full time jobs
About 30 Saudi women teachers have demonstrated outside the kingdom's Education Ministry, demanding full time jobs. An Associated Press reporter saw ...
Egypt: Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction
Dozens of Egyptian military and police armored vehicles crossed into Sinai on Monday, beefing up the security presence in the volatile peninsula five ...
Israel gunman shoots 4 dead at bank, kills self
A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing ...
Large earthquake strikes off coast of Chile
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but Chilean officials said it was not felt on ...
51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town
Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, ...