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Powerful typhoon lashes Japan's Okinawa island
More than 75,000 households lacked power on Monday after a powerful typhoon lashed the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, injuring four people but ...
Survivors: strong gas odor before Venezuela blast
After nightfall on Friday, as red lights began glowing atop the massive Amuay refinery in western Venezuela, the odor of sulfur made its way through ...
Hispaniola death toll from Isaac climbs to 10
Haitians began to dig themselves out of the mud on Sunday, one day after Tropical Storm Isaac doused the Caribbean nation and killed eight people here ...
Egypt prosecutor probes anti-Brotherhood critic
Egypt's attorney general has referred an outspoken anti-Islamist former lawmaker for investigation by police prosecutors over claims he called for the ...
Togo women push sex strike to unseat president
The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president.
Evidence mounts of new massacre in Syria
Row upon row of bloodied bodies wrapped in colorful blankets laid out on a mosque floor in a Damascus suburb. Long narrow graves tightly packed with ...
Libya's interior minister resigns after attacks
Libya's interim interior minister resigned on Sunday after members of the newly-elected parliament accused his forces of neglect when attackers ...
Flooding kills 10 in northeast Nigeria
An emergency management official in northeast Nigeria says 10 people were killed in floods that swept through the region. Adamawa state Emergency ...
Israel stops activists from entering West Bank
Israeli authorities refused entry on Sunday to about 100 pro-Palestinian activists, including three Americans, attempting to cross overland to the ...
Syrian rebels left lives as butchers, barbers
In their previous lives, they were butchers, barbers, construction workers and university students. Now they are rebels fighting a civil war they hope ...
Mass burials in Damascus town amid massacre report
Dozens of bloodied bodies were buried Sunday in mass graves in a Damascus suburb where activists claim more than 300 people have been killed over the ...
Egypt investigates killing of a suspected militant
Egyptian authorities are investigating the death of a suspected militant near the country's border with Israel on Sunday, security officials said.
Iran opens nonaligned summit with nuclear appeals
Iran opened a world gathering of self-described nonaligned nations Sunday with a slap at the U.N. Security Council and an appeal to rid the world of ...
Iraqi officials: Series of attacks kill 8 people
Attacks by insurgents killed eight police and soldiers in Iraq Sunday, police said, the latest onslaught meant to undermine the Baghdad government.
Zimbabwe conservationists: wildlife threatened
Tens of thousands of wild animals face annihilation in a wave of land takeovers in southeastern Zimbabwe by politicians of President Robert Mugabe's ...
Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistan
Dozens of militants from Afghanistan attacked an anti-Taliban militia post in northwest Pakistan for the third day Sunday, sparking fighting that ...
Israeli police arrest suspects in firebomb attack
Israeli police say they have arrested three Jewish youths from a West Bank settlement as suspects in firebomb attack that wounded six Palestinians in ...
Serbs pray for rain amid raging fires
Several hundred people have answered a call by a Serbian Orthodox church bishop to pray for rain as fires rage in the Balkan country, and forecasts ...
Prince Philip in first appearance since hospital
Prince Philip has made his first public appearance since he was discharged from a hospital last week. The 91-year-old British royal accompanied his ...
NATO: 202 Afghan bases closed, more to come
NATO has closed more than 200 bases in Afghanistan and transferred nearly 300 others to local forces, a concrete step toward its 2014 target of ...
Gaza Hamas premier drops plan to go to Iran summit
A Hamas official says Gaza's Hamas prime minister has dropped plans to attend this week's summit of Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran. The prospect of ...
Saudi uncovers 'terrorist' plots in the kingdom
Saudi Arabia's news agency says authorities have uncovered "terrorist" cells plotting attacks against Saudi police and civilians in Riyadh, the ...
2 Pussy Riot members flee Russia to escape arrest
Two members of the punk band Pussy Riot have fled Russia to avoid prosecution for a protest against Vladimir Putin that sent three of their band mates ...
Pierre Cardin offering glass skyscraper to Venice
French fashion designer Pierre Cardin has designed a gift meant as an economic catalyst to Venice and the region: a 250-meter (800-foot)-tall ...
Bus collides with tanker in China, killing 36
A double-decker bus rammed into a tanker loaded with highly flammable methanol on a northern Chinese highway on Sunday, causing both vehicles to burst ...