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Bahrain protesters challenge police in capital
Security forces in Bahrain fired tear gas and arrested protesters Monday during marches in the traditional market area of the Gulf nation's capital, ...
Wave of bombings kills 25 across Iraq
A wave of bombings hit ethnically disputed northern areas and other parts of Iraq on Monday, killing 25 people and wounding dozens. The attacks deepen ...
Unrest marks Tunisia revolution anniversary event
Protesters threw stones and tomatoes and booed Tunisian leaders Monday at a ceremony marking two years since the start of an uprising that changed ...
Syrian elected new Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
Syria's state-run news agency says John Yazigi has been elected to head the Damascus-based Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. He replaces Patriarch ...
Car bomb kills 17 people in market in Pakistan
A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Monday, killing 17 people and wounding ...
Italian worker, 2 others abducted in Syria
Three workers at a Syrian steel plant, including an Italian, have been kidnapped, officials said Monday. Italy's foreign ministry did not say where ...
Judge, 3 family members are beheaded in Ukraine
Ukrainian police are investigating the grisly murder of a judge and three family members whose decapitated bodies were discovered over the weekend in ...
Iran cautiously ponders Syria after Assad
It wasn't exactly a break-up moment between Iran and ally Bashar Assad. But Tehran's whiplash diplomacy over the weekend suggested its embrace of the ...
NATO: Somali pirates seized no ships for 6 months
NATO officials say no ships have been hijacked off the Somali coast in the second half of this year, reflecting a sharp decrease in piracy along one ...
19 people drowned after boat capsizes in Benin
Officials say at least 19 people drowned after a boat capsized on a river near a village in Benin's south. The mayor of the town of Abomey, Patrice ...
Guinea to give civil servants 50 percent pay raise
A labor inspector says that Guinean authorities will give civil servants a pay raise of 50 percent over the next year. Inspector Mariama Djogo Barry ...
Cameroon upholds 3-year term for gay text message
An appeals court on Monday upheld a three-year sentence against a man found guilty of homosexual conduct for sending a text message to another man ...
Car bomb at US compound in Kabul kills 2 Afghans
A car bomb outside a compound housing a U.S. military contractor in the Afghan capital killed at least two Afghan workers and wounded more than a ...
Somali militants publicly rebuke American member
Militants in Somalia are publicly rebuking their best known American fighter. Al-Shabab posted a statement Monday scolding Omar Shafik Hammami, ...
Court fines woman in Berlusconi 'bunga bunga' case
A Milan court fined a Moroccan woman at the center of Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire scandal €500 ($650) on Monday for failing to appear as a ...
Ethiopian Muslim activists deny terror charges
A group of more than two dozen Ethiopian Muslims pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of terrorism. Federal prosecutors are accusing the group, ...
Vatican hopes UN Palestinian vote brings peace
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has met with Pope Benedict XVI to thank him for supporting the recent U.N. resolution recognizing a ...
Hospitalized Mandela misses grandson's initiation
As Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized after undergoing surgery and recuperating from a lung infection, the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader missed ...
South Africa's ANC begins leadership nominations
South Africa's African National Congress, the nation's governing party, has begun accepting nominations for its top officials. At their meeting ...
Report: Explosion in Lebanon near Israel border
A large explosion struck southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on Monday, the Lebanese official news agency reported. South Lebanon is ...
After landslide, Abe says Japan has difficult road
After leading his conservative party to a landslide victory that will bring it back to power after a three-year hiatus, Shinzo Abe stressed Monday ...
Iran media: Son of ex-president released on bail
Iranian media say the son of influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been released on bail. Several papers, including the pro-reform ...
Chavez allies sweep Venezuela gubernatorial vote
Allies of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez steamrolled Venezuela's opposition in gubernatorial elections, winning 20 of 23 states. The only good ...
North Koreans mourn Kim Jong Il 1 year later
North Koreans stopped in their tracks at midday to silently honor former ruler Kim Jong Il, whose death one year ago Monday swept his 20-something son ...
Venezuelan elections a test for Chavez's movement
Venezuelans chose governors and state lawmakers on Sunday in elections seen as a key test of whether President Hugo Chavez's movement can endure if ...