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Dutch F16s escort Spanish jet to Schiphol
The Netherlands scrambled two F16 fighter jets Wednesday to escort a Spanish passenger plane to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after air traffic ...
Attacks in Iraq kill general and 5 others
Attackers killed six Iraqi security officials including an army general on Wednesday, officials said, the latest wave of insurgent attacks aimed at ...
Turkey to press for safe zone in Syria
There is no better lesson about the perils of setting up a safe zone in a country in conflict than Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serbs killed some 8,000 ...
Female suicide bomber identified in Russia
Russian police on Wednesday identified the female suicide bomber who killed an influential Muslim leader in a terrorist attack that could worsen a ...
Latvia believes US businessman's body found
A body recently discovered in a forest is apparently that of a Russian-born U.S. businessman who disappeared in mysterious circumstances more than ...
Stray dogs kill 4 kangaroos in Bosnia zoo
Officials say stray dogs entered the Sarajevo zoo, killed four kangaroos and injured another before guards could chase them away. Zoo veterinarian ...
IAEA establishes Iran Task Force
The U.N. nuclear agency has created a special Iran Task Force of nuclear weapons experts, intelligence analysts and other specialists focused on ...
No surprises at Angola's 2nd election in 20 years
Angola's second election in 20 years will test the popularity of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos after a decade of peace has brought fabulous wealth ...
Reports: Plane from Spain to Amsterdam hijacked
Dutch media are reporting that a passenger plane has possibly been hijacked en route from Malaga in Spain to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
Belgian who aided child abuse starts convent life
The screaming, insults and scuffles that accompanied the nighttime arrival of one of Belgium's most despised criminals at a bucolic convent have ...
Oil prices slip amid calls for increased output
Crude prices slipped below $96 a barrel Wednesday after finance ministers from the world's leading industrialized economies called on oil producers ...
Former Israeli commandos dominate politics
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to fill a sensitive Cabinet post recently, he turned to an old army buddy from his days in an elite ...
Jordan warns Syrian refugees against rioting
Jordan's has warned Syrian refugees in its tent camp near the Syrian border against rioting. Public security officials say rioting by 200 refugees ...
Turkish military is key factor in Syria planning
In 2003, Turkey barred U.S. forces from opening a northern front in the war against Iraq in a stunning rebuff to Washington that raised questions ...
Kremlin's rights council blasts Pussy Riot verdict
The Russian presidential human rights council is questioning the guilty verdict and two-year prison sentences against three members of punk ...
Typhoon hits N. Korea, still reeling from floods
A powerful typhoon that killed at least 10 people in South Korea hit the North early Wednesday, knocking down hundreds of trees, destroying power ...
Somalia lawmakers select new speaker
Somalia's parliament Tuesday elected former labor minister Mohamed Osman Jawari as the new speaker, a key step toward the election of a president and ...
Ecuador judge rejects extradition for Belarusian
A judge on Ecuador's highest court rejected on Tuesday an extradition request for a former police investigator from Belarus who has been jailed since ...
Fire doused at Venezuela refinery hit by explosion
Venezuela's biggest oil refinery remained shut down Tuesday after firefighters extinguished a blaze that raged for more than three days following an ...
Argentine leader could face criminal fraud probe
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez could be in legal trouble. A federal prosecutor has found grounds for a criminal fraud investigation of the ...
Belgian pedophile accomplice gets early release
A woman who let two 8-year-old girls starve in a cellar and helped her pedophile husband carry out horrific abuse of other girls went from prison to ...
Gambia executes 9 death row inmates
Gambia's government says nine inmates who were on death row have been executed by a firing squad. President Yahya Jammeh had announced during his ...
Mexico sect vows fight over public schools
Sprouting out of the corn fields of western Mexico rises a hill crowned with two arches and four towers, marking the gates of an improvised "holy ...
Egypt leader said to reach out to Sinai radicals
Egypt's Islamist president is using former jihadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return ...
UK's Cameron challenged to act on Heathrow Airport
Prime Minister David Cameron is facing heat from his own Conservative party over the subject of building a third runway for London's beleaguered ...