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Assad says Syrians support his reform efforts
Syrian President Bashar Assad has told a Russian state news channel that his country supports his reform agenda. He says recent parliamentary ...
UN team in Syria evacuated from tense town
A team of international observers was evacuated from a tense town in northern Syria on Wednesday, one day after a roadside bomb hit their convoy and ...
France raises $11.6 billion in bond auctions
France raised €9 billion ($11.6 billion) in a successful pair of bond auctions Wednesday that also saw some of its long-term borrowing costs move up.
Ratko Mladic's genocide trial gets under way
Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday ...
Appreciating Mexican author Carlos Fuentes
Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his ...
Progress for Chinese activist's bid to study in US
A blind Chinese activist who sparked a diplomatic crisis by fleeing into the U.S. Embassy last month filled out a Chinese passport application and ...
War crimes judges hear Taylor's sentencing pleas
Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor told judges at his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims ...
Arafat's former aide faces embezzlement charges
The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian ...
Greek chaos continues to roil world markets
The shockwaves from Greece's failure to form a coalition government continued to reverberate around markets on Wednesday, with investors concerned ...
'Black box' found of Russia jet in Indonesia crash
Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano.
Official: 1 dead in explosion on Kenya's coast
Police say attackers fired shots and detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing ...
Yemen clashes kill 13 al-Qaida militants, 4 troops
Yemen military officials say the latest fighting to uproot al-Qaida from the country's south has killed 13 militants, as well as four soldiers and two ...
China TV blames Dalai Lama for Tibet immolations
China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far ...
Greece: Business blasts 'undertaker' politicians
The head of a major Greek business organization has lashed out at the country's politicians for failing to form a coalition government and triggering ...
South African police seize 10 rhino horn
Police officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an ...
Race, age questions fuel Miss World Fiji fiasco
First came complaints that the winner of the Miss World Fiji pageant looked too Western to represent her country. Then her age came under scrutiny.
2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister
A midday bombing that killed two bodyguards of an archconservative former interior minister and injured at least 39 people in a busy commercial ...
Iran's tough nuclear stance masks struggles at top
The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded ...
Police uproot protest camp in Moscow
Russian police uprooted a protest camp in central Moscow that has become a center of opposition activity, rousting demonstrators in an early morning ...
US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have waged a four-front assault against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with ...
NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago
NATO has invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its ...
Australia pledges $300 million to Afghan forces
Australia will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 toward the $4 billion a year cost of running the Afghan National ...
India state to probe corruption in low-caste parks
The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are now investigating whether ...
Legion admits it knew of priest's kid, did nothing
The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a pedophile, admitted Wednesday that it knew that its ...
EU navy, helicopters strike pirate supply center
European Union naval forces in attack helicopters conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia. A pirate said the strike ...