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Refinery blast kills 19 in Venezuela, dozens hurt
A state governor in Venezuela says the death toll from an explosion at the country's biggest oil refinery has risen to 19. Falcon state Gov.
Isaac nears Haiti with homeless quake population
Tropical Storm Isaac bore down on Haiti's southern peninsula early Saturday, threatening a city prone to flooding and dousing other areas of the poor ...
Mexican Navy: Police fired on US gov't vehicle
Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, ...
Norway gunman declared sane, sent away to prison
It was during breaks between marathon video game sessions in his mother's apartment in Oslo that Anders Behring Breivik drafted his complicated and ...
NATO airstrike kills 12 militants in Afghanistan
A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan targeting a group of insurgents near the Pakistani border killed at least 12 militants Friday, the ...
Diplomats: Iran shrouds suspected nuclear site
Iran has shrouded a building that the U.N. nuclear agency suspects was used for secret work on atomic weapons, meaning spy satellites can no longer ...
Syrian regime airstrikes kill 21 in eastern city
A government warplane bombed an apartment building in eastern Syria on Friday, killing at least 21 people as the regime fought to claw back ground ...
Nicaragua seizes $7 million from fake journalists
Nicaraguan police found about $7 million in smuggled cash in vans driven by people posing as members of a Mexican television news crew, National ...
PR consultant: More Harry material may emerge soon
Brace yourself, Harry. A prominent British public relations guru said Friday he'd been approached by two women who claimed to have more material on ...
Photographed doc lays out Assange police tactics
A confidential document photographed by Britain's Press Association news agency lays out Scotland Yard's simple strategy for dealing with Julian ...
With a sneer, Egypt TV host challenges Islamists
He emerged as one of the most popular television personalities of post-revolution Egypt by largely railing against the revolution, a bombastic ...
Wildlife group: politicians threaten animal haven
A new wave of land takeovers and hunting licenses granted to loyalists of President Robert Mugabe is threatening a massive wildlife preserve in ...
Jailing of Breivik is praised by Norwegians
A court's decision to sentence Anders Behring Breivik to between 10 and 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in Norway, and to say that he was ...
Kenya Red Cross: 200 people dead in pre-poll chaos
More than 200 people have died since January in several separate clashes that follow the pattern of pre-election violence that Kenya has experienced ...
Russian court acquits Kasparov regarding rally
A Russian court unexpectedly acquitted opposition leader and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov on Friday of participating in an unauthorized rally.
Pakistan: US drones hit militant hideouts, kill 18
U.S. drones fired missiles at three hideouts in a key militant sanctuary close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 18 suspected insurgents in the ...
Greenpeace activists storm Russian oil rig
Greenpeace activists were first offered hot soup, then showered with blasts of cold water and pieces of metal after they stormed a floating Russia oil ...
New European banking oversight plan due in Sept
A European Union spokesman says proposals for EU-wide banking supervision are likely to be made around Sept. 11. The proposal for unified supervision ...
Mortar fire targeting Shiites kills 3 in Iraq
A mortar attack targeting Shiite worshippers killed three people in eastern Baghdad on Friday, and authorities were investigating whether attackers ...
Reports: 2 TV reporters missing in Syria are alive
In television footage of a van's interior, a journalist for a U.S.-funded network sits silently behind a Japanese correspondent who narrates to the ...
New bank notes symptom of old woes in Nigeria
Nigeria is set to unveil a bank note five times more valuable than its largest denomination bill as part of a major overhaul to its currency, a change ...
Egypt: Editor freed after president issues new law
The editor of an independent Egyptian daily was released from jail late Thursday just hours after the country's Islamist president issued a law that ...
Camorra crime boss shot dead leaving beach
Authorities were searching Friday for a gunman who shot and killed an organized crime boss clad in a swimsuit as he walked from a beach to join his ...
Britain's economic drop revised up slightly
Britain's economy shrank by 0.5 percent between April and June — slightly less than previously feared — though the revised official figures published ...