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Israeli budget rifts could lead to early polls
Israel's prime minister held the prospect of early elections over the heads of his coalition partners Tuesday, opening a drive to get his budget ...
Eccentric billionaire likely to lead country
He collects rare animals, buys priceless art and professes to be a psychoanalyst. Bidzina Ivanishvili, a onetime barefoot village boy turned eccentric ...
US: Military effort needed to oust Mali Islamists
Military action will be needed to push radical Islamists out of northern Mali where they have carried out amputations and public whippings since ...
Jordan charges 4 with trying to enter Syria
Jordan on Tuesday charged four men with illegally trying to cross into Syria after an exchange of gunfire with Jordanian border guards last week, a ...
Tunisians protest over alleged rape by police
Hundreds of Tunisians protested Tuesday in support of a woman who says she was raped by police and is facing accusations of violating modesty laws.
Syria ever present 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 ...
Portugal scraps rent controls, alarms low-earners
The peaceful retirement of Teresa Dourado is about to be shattered. The 77-year-old widow raised two children with her husband in their fourth-floor ...
Indian general stabbed and wounded in London
A retired Indian army general who helped lead a deadly 1984 raid on Sikhism's holiest shrine in India has been stabbed and wounded in London, in what ...
Hong Kong boat collision kills 36 holiday revelers
Investigators on Tuesday boarded a half-submerged boat that collided with a ferry a night earlier, killing at least 36 people who had been on their ...
Civilians struggle to check Pakistan army's power
The footage was startling: A group of what appeared to be Pakistani soldiers gunning down several blindfolded men in a forested area. As the clips ...
Boat sinks off Hong Kong after collision; 36 dead
A boat packed with revelers on a long holiday weekend collided with a ferry and sank off Hong Kong, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens in ...
North Korea: Spark could set off nuclear war
A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, warning that its "hostile" policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from ...
Early returns show losses for Georgia ruling party
Early returns and exit polls in a heated parliamentary election show that Georgian voters have turned against President Mikhail Saakashvili and the ...
Hugo Chavez vows stronger socialist drive
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged to redouble his efforts to create a socialist system if re-elected in Sunday's election, saying the next ...
Syrian minister accuses US of stoking 'terrorism'
Syria's foreign minister brought his regime's case before the world Monday, accusing the U.S. and its allies of promoting "terrorism" and blaming ...
Top Egypt security delegation heads to Syria
A high level Egyptian security delegation left for Syria on Monday in a rare visit, Cairo airport officials said. The delegation's mission was not ...
Fatal shooting mars Venezuela election campaign
Jason Valero was so excited about the possibility that Henrique Capriles could unseat President Hugo Chavez that he took a few weeks off from his job ...
Audit: USAID Haiti work 'not on track'
A newly released audit says the largest U.S. contractor working to stabilize Haiti after the 2010 earthquake is "not on track" to complete its ...
Egypt doctors strike for better wages, services
Egypt's doctors began on Monday a partial strike, abstaining from offering non-emergency services in public hospitals to protest run-down facilities ...
Syria: UN council members support 'terrorism'
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem accused some U.N. Security Council members Monday of supporting "terrorism" in a speech colored by ...
Palestinians: 2 teams to probe Arafat's death
Investigators from France and Switzerland will conduct parallel probes into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials said ...
Aleppo siege alarms antiquities experts
The pictures shown Monday at a gathering of Arab antiquities experts gave a glimpse into the damage Syria's civil war has wreaked on the heritage of ...
Rare labor petition in Iran shows economic alarm
For weeks, a manifesto complaining about Iran's stumbling economy circulated in secret among factories and workshops. Organizers asked for signatures ...
Afghanistan bomber kills 14, including 3 Americans
A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle packed with explosives into a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol on Monday, killing 14 people including three ...
Radical Nigeria sect threatens wives of leaders
The leader of a radical Islamist sect has threatened the wives of Nigerian security agents and government officials in a new Internet video, while ...