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Rights groups: 5 Tibetans self-immolate in 2 days
Tibetan protests against Chinese rule intensified around the opening of a pivotal Communist Party congress as three teenage monks and two other ...
SAfrica opposition submits no confidence motion
Opposition parties on Thursday submitted a motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma saying that corruption and unemployment have risen, ...
Malawi lauded on anti-gay law moratorium
Going against a trend in Africa, Malawi's government is moving to suspend laws against homosexuality and has ordered police not to arrest people for ...
Spain completes year's financing with $6B auction
Spain's government has met its financing needs for the year after raising €4.76 billion ($6.07 billion) in a bond auction on Thursday. The Treasury ...
German prosecutors file charges in neo-Nazi case
German federal prosecutors say they have charged the surviving member of small group of neo-Nazis with involvement in the murder of nine minorities ...
Russia hopes for US flexibility on missile shield
Russia expects Barack Obama to show more flexibility in a dispute over U.S. missile defense plans in Europe following his re-election as president, ...
OPEC sees coal use increasing in coming decades
OPEC says that fossil fuels will remain the main energy source in the coming decades with coal's share growing and oil's falling. In its annual World ...
Suicide bomber kills 3 Pakistani troops in Karachi
A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into a compound housing a paramilitary force in Pakistan's largest city on Thursday, ...
James Patterson to help effort to donate books
Best-sellers James Patterson and Ann Patchett will help lead a nationwide effort to spread the good words of books. Patterson and Patchett are the ...
Bombings across Afghanistan kill 20 people
Roadside bombs and a suicide bomber killed 20 people in a spate of attacks across Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. The deaths came even as ...
EADS profit stalls in Q3 on super jumbo costs
The cost of fixing problems on some A380 super jumbos weighed on third-quarter profits at Airbus parent company EADS NV. Net profit at the European ...
Gunmen kill 2 Chinese workers in northeast Nigeria
Gunmen have shot dead two Chinese construction workers in northeast Nigeria, a region under assault by a radical Islamist sect. Authorities initially ...
Mortar fire from Syria lands in Israeli-held Golan
Israel's military says three mortar rounds fired from Syria have landed inside the Israeli-held Golan Heights. It's the third time in less than a week ...
Deutsche Bank head calls on states to reduce debt
The co-chief of lender Deutsche Bank says Western governments are still failing to reduce their debts and in the process are destabilizing the world's ...
Car bomb attacks kill 4 people in Iraq
Three car bombs in towns south of Baghdad killed four people and injured 16 others on Thursday, Iraqi police and health officials said. The first ...
Iran to hold air defense drill in country's east
Iran's official news agency says the country's military will hold "massive" air defense maneuvers in the east, starting this weekend. Gen.
EU probes Chinese subsidies of solar panels, parts
The European Union is considering imposing tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels and parts after a complaint from European manufacturers alleged that ...
Archaeologists explore site on Syria-Turkey border
Few archaeological sites seem as entwined with conflict, ancient and modern, as the city of Karkemish. The scene of a battle mentioned in the Bible, ...
IAG mulls bid for Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling
International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways and Iberia, is considering a bid to take full control of Spanish low-cost airline Vueling.
Pakistan's minority Hindus feel under attack
They came after dusk and chanted into the night sky "Kill the Hindus, kill the children of the Hindus," as they smashed religious icons, ripped golden ...
Parliament OKs landmark religious compensation law
The lower house of Parliament has overruled an upper house veto and gave a green light to a plan by the center-right government to pay billions of ...
Scientology makes few waves in Israel
The Church of Scientology has apparently found one place where its presence doesn't set off alarms, protests and demonstrations, and that place is one ...
Powerful quake hits Guatemala, killing at least 48
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 48 people in two states as it toppled thick adobe walls, shook huge ...
Asia stocks slump as US faces fiscal crunch
Asian stock markets tumbled Thursday after a ratings agency threatened to downgrade the U.S. if a solution to the so-called fiscal cliff isn't ...
Japan utility seeks more funds for nuclear crisis
The Japanese operator of the nuclear power plant devastated in last year's disasters is seeking more government financial support, saying the cost of ...