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Fighting between rebel factions in east Congo
Fighting erupted in eastern Congo early Friday between two factions of the M23 rebel group, according to officials on both sides. The new splinter of ...
Somalia: Suicide bomber and diner killed in attack
A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital on Friday, killing himself and one diner, a police official ...
Iraqi divers retrieve bodies after boat accident
Divers worked through the night and into Friday in murky waters to recover bodies from a partially sunken floating restaurant in Baghdad after an ...
South Africa: Police charged with murder
Eight South African police officers were charged with murder on Friday for the death of a taxi driver dragged by a police vehicle, a videotaped ...
Yemeni al-Qaida posts new issue of online magazine
Yemen's al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula — considered to be the terror network's most dangerous branch — is urging for holy war in a new edition of ...
Gunmen kill Pakistani reporter in southwest
Pakistani police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a reporter in southwest Pakistan. Senior police officer Ahmed Shah Lango says Mahmood ...
Euroskeptics land election blow on UK's Cameron
David Cameron's Conservative Party suffered an embarrassing defeat Friday when an insurgent, anti-European Union Party knocked his party into third ...
Vatican takes first steps running pope-less church
The Vatican took the first steps of governing a Catholic Church without a pope on Friday, making some ceremonial and practical moves to formalize the ...
Spain to fight Catalonia sovereignty declaration
The Spanish government says it will challenge a recent declaration by lawmakers in Catalonia that the region is a sovereign entity. Deputy Prime ...
Thousands of caterpillars seized at UK airport
British customs agents made a creepy discovery when an airline passenger was found with 94 kilograms (207 pounds) of caterpillars in his luggage.
Christian-Muslim tension flares in southern Egypt
Dozens of Muslim residents threw firebombs and rocks at police on Friday as they tried to storm a church in southern Egypt in search of a woman ...
Ex-Yugo army chief welcomes his acquittal
A former chief of the Yugoslav army said Friday he hopes a U.N. court's decision to overturn his conviction on war crimes charges will help clear ...
Thousands of terrified Congolese flee to Uganda
A spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency in Uganda says more than 4,000 Congolese refugees crossed into Uganda Thursday night to escape renewed ...
China executes 4 foreigners over Mekong murders
China executed four foreigners on Friday for killing 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River, following a live nationwide broadcast ...
Dutch court: woman incited genocide in Rwanda
A Dutch court on Friday convicted a Rwandan-born Dutch woman of inciting genocide in Rwanda's 1994 mass murders of ethnic Tutsis by members of the ...
Diplomat: UK isolated in EU in opposing bonus caps
Britain is isolated in the European Union in opposing strict caps on bankers' bonuses, a European diplomat said Friday, in a dispute that could lead ...
Berlin wall removal stalls amid protests
Hundreds of angry protesters on Friday prevented construction workers from removing a section of one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin ...
Former Pakistan president sets mid-March return
Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf says he will return home from self-imposed exile this month to run in parliamentary elections despite ...
Official: Kerry to rap Turkey PM for remark
A senior American official said Friday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will take Turkey's prime minister to task for "particularly offensive" ...
In Kenya, half brother to Obama runs for governor
A politician named Obama who is running for governor in Kenya can boast of one big claim to fame on the campaign trail: blood relations with the ...
Pope's first hours as retiree: Prayer, TV, books
The Vatican says Benedict XVI has spent his first few hours as a retiree praying, watching TV and taking walks. The Vatican on Friday released details ...
14 killed in Malaysia standoff with Filipinos
Fourteen people were killed in a shootout Friday as Malaysian authorities tried to end a three-week standoff with about 200 members of a Filipino clan ...
Nigeria's big city razes homes as poor left behind
The bulldozers came at dawn to this neighborhood of shanty homes and concrete buildings in Nigeria's largest city, followed by riot police carrying ...
Russia condemns Western help for Syrian opposition
Russia said Friday that decision by Western nations to support the Syrian opposition in its battle to oust President Bashar Assad would only intensify ...
Bahrain overturns acquittal of opposition figure
A senior Bahrain prosecutor says an appeals court has overturned the acquittal and sentenced the daughter of a jailed opposition leader to three ...