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More than 2 million workers strike in Indonesia
More than 2 million factory workers went on a one-day strike across Indonesia on Wednesday to demand better benefits and protest the hiring of ...
Malawi: President Joyce Banda cuts own salary
Malawi President Joyce Banda announced that she will take a 30 percent pay cut to show that she will sacrifice personally as part of her government's ...
24-hour strike paralyzes Belgium train traffic
A 24-hour strike by Belgian rail workers on Wednesday paralyzed train traffic throughout Belgium and the international high-speed service to London ...
White House widening covert war in North Africa
Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery ...
Philippines, Muslim rebels close to peace accord
The Philippine government and Muslim rebels have resumed talks on resolving final differences in a preliminary peace accord they hope to conclude ...
AP Exclusive: US car was targeted in Mexico ambush
A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA ...
Human rights activist arrested by Algerian police
A member of a leading human rights organization has been beaten and arrested in a southern Algerian city. The lawyer for Yacine Zaid said Tuesday that ...
Libya forces prepare for sweep of pro-Gadhafi town
Libyan militias operating alongside the defense ministry readied their forces Tuesday to advance on a town that remains a bastion of support for the ...
Attackers kill students in northeast Nigeria
Assailants shot or stabbed to death at least 25 people in the second attack near colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast in the last few days, ...
Rights group: Egypt must tackle legacy of abuse
Amnesty International on Tuesday took Egypt's new president to task for failing to address the "bloody legacy" of abuses by security forces committed ...
Israeli premier to visit Europe, discuss Iran
An Israeli official says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Europe in a few months to persuade leaders to step up sanctions on Iran over its ...
Free coffins: political swag for Honduran poor
In some countries political campaigns give out bumper stickers and yard signs. In others, they offer free lunches and supermarket debit cards.
Prominent translator Michael Henry Heim dies
Michael Henry Heim, an internationally known translator who created highly praised English versions of such masterpieces as "Death in Venice" and "The ...
Islamist-secular struggle over Egypt constitution
Islamists are seeking to enshrine in Egypt's long-awaited new constitution a number of articles that secularists and liberals fear would bring ...
Somalia: Kenyan army says it now controls Kismayo
Allied African troops have taken full control of Kismayo in Somalia, the last stronghold of Islamist rebels who have been fighting against the ...
Pope's butler pleads innocent to theft charge
Pope Benedict XVI's onetime butler declared Tuesday he was innocent of a charge of aggravated theft of the pope's private correspondence, but ...
Georgian president concedes but democracy rules
Defying expectations, President Mikhail Saakashvili conceded Tuesday that his party had lost Georgia's parliamentary election and his opponent had the ...
Official: Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria
A Hezbollah commander and several fighters have been killed inside Syria, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday, a development that could stoke ...
Hong Kong Ferry Boat Rescue
Thirty-eight passengers were killed and 101 injured when a Hong Kong Electric ferry collided with a tug boat on Monday.
Video shows US journalist held in Syria
An American freelance journalist who has been missing in Syria since mid-August has been shown in a video clip posted online, blindfolded and saying ...
Azerbaijan defends Mexico monument to ex-leader
The Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan is defending a multimillion-dollar renovation of Mexican parks and a monument to late president Geidar Aliyev that ...
No Syria solution in sight at UN General Assembly
After countless speeches, meetings and behind-the-scenes discussions, the war in Syria remained the unsolved problem that loomed over this year's ...
Liberia: Opposition outrage at president
Liberia's opposition is outraged by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's recent admission that some of her supporters hid their sons' cards to prevent ...
Iran leader calls Netanyahu's bomb prop 'childish'
Iran's president sneered on Tuesday at Israeli's presentation at the United Nations last week, calling the cartoon-style drawing of a bomb held up by ...
Iran president: 'Psychological' blows hit currency
Iran's president on Tuesday blamed the steep drop in Iran's currency on "psychological pressures" linked to Western sanctions over Tehran's nuclear ...