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Bahrain: 4 arrested in attack on foreign ministry
Bahrain says four suspects have been arrested after homemade firebombs were hurled at the foreign ministry in a possible escalation of anti-government ...
UN says food distribution centers reopen in Gaza
The United Nations says it has reopened food distribution centers in Gaza that closed last week following a violent protest at a U.N. compound. U.N.
NKorea urges foreigners in SKorea to evacuate
North Korea is urging all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate because it says the rival Koreas are on the eve of a nuclear war.
Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes
It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: It has never demonstrated the ...
NM school bus crashes into embankment; driver dead
A bus driver died and nine students were injured Monday when a school bus went off a road and lodged in an embankment in northern New Mexico, ...
Prosecutor says impostor always ready with lie
A notorious Rockefeller impostor was depicted Monday by a prosecutor as a master manipulator who "always had a lie in his back pocket to explain ...
Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87
Love her or loathe her, one thing's beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. The Iron Lady, who ruled for 11 remarkable years, imposed ...
Al-Qaida denies its No. 2 in Yemen was killed
Al-Qaida in Yemen posted a statement on militant websites Monday saying that its second-most senior commander has not been killed. It was the second ...
Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15
A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and ...
After violence, Egypt opposition presses Morsi
After Egypt's worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt's leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday ...
Thatcher, even in death, divides world opinion
Combative and determined to get her way, Margaret Thatcher divided opinion down the middle in life — and in death. Many leaders lauded Thatcher for ...
Serbia rejects EU-brokered Kosovo deal
Serbia rejected on Monday a European Union-brokered deal for reconciliation with its former province of Kosovo — a defiant move that could jeopardize ...
Democrats bring gun control bill to Senate floor
Democrats have brought gun control legislation to the Senate floor amid a threat from conservative Republican senators to use delaying tactics to ...
Putin faces protest furor in Germany, Netherlands
Vladimir Putin faced hundreds of protesters ranging from gay rights activists to a topless feminist group during his visit to Germany and the ...
Kerry makes new, ambitious Mideast peace push
Secretary of State John Kerry worked Monday to corral Israeli and Palestinian leaders into a new and ambitious peace process that includes reviving ...
Incumbent declared winner in Montenegro election
Incumbent Filip Vujanovic has won Montenegro's presidential election, despite opposition claims that their candidate was the winner, election ...
30 Pakistani soldiers killed in northwest valley
Four days of fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan left 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants dead as the army attempted to wrestle control of a ...
Libya PM says security weak as aide still missing
Libya's prime minister says his country is "weak" as militias continue to run prisons and abduct people, including his chief of staff now missing for ...
Russian opposition leader: Putin ordered trial
One of Russia's most prominent opposition leaders claims that President Vladimir Putin has "undoubtedly" ordered an embezzlement trial against him.
UK: Thatcher to receive ceremonial funeral
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will receive a ceremonial funeral with military honors next week, the British government said Monday.
Jewish youths march in honor of Holocaust victims
Thousands of youths from Israel and other countries marched in silence Monday at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi death camp in Poland, to pay ...
Milestones in the life of Margaret Thatcher
Milestones in the life and career of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Oct. 13, 1925: Born in Grantham, central England. June 1947: ...
Judge reverses suspensions of 2 prosecutors
An administrative judge has reversed suspensions of two federal prosecutors who allegedly failed to turn over evidence to Sen. Ted Stevens necessary ...
UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ...
Russian journalist brain-damaged after attack dies
Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who suffered brain damage and lost a leg after a brutal assault that followed his campaign against a highway ...