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Kenya Red Cross: 10 wounded in grenade attack
The Kenya Red Cross says at least 10 people were wounded in a grenade attack on a church service at a police camp in northern Kenya. According to the ...
Diplomat says Malala recovery 'very satisfactory'
A Pakistani ambassador says the 15-year-old girl activist shot in the head by a Taliban gunman last month is making a steady recovery and is starting ...
Puerto Rico seeks to define its relationship to US
Puerto Rican voters will once again ponder the decades-old question over the island's political future when they go to the polls Tuesday: What kind ...
Putin in public after health rumors soar
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made his first public appearance since speculation about his health rose sharply last week. Putin on Sunday ...
Italian PM: We will not desert Afghanistan
Italy's prime minister pledged Sunday not to abandon Afghanistan as his country pulls out its troops, saying Rome will "transform" its support but not ...
Security chief of Egypt's Northern Sinai fired
Egypt's interior minister has fired the security chief of Northern Sinai governorate after suspected Islamic militants killed three policemen in the ...
Gov't: BBC could face public inquiry over Savile
Britain's government could order a full public inquiry into the British Broadcasting Corp.'s handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, the ...
Iran sets up new base near disputed islands
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards inaugurated a new naval base on Sunday to reinforce Tehran's authority over three Persian Gulf islands also ...
Iraq's Sunni VP receives new death sentence
An Iraqi court handed the country's fugitive Sunni vice president a new death sentence on Sunday after finding him guilty of ordering his bodyguards ...
Ivory Coast: Fighters sneak in Ghana refugee camps
Fighters who backed former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo have infiltrated refugee camps in Ghana and are accused of attacking security bases ...
Leftover land mine explodes, kills 6 in Iran
An Iranian semi-official news agency reports an explosion from a land mine left over from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s has killed six people and ...
Iran's parliament to grill Ahmadinejad on currency
Iran's parliament is planning to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be questioned over the country's plummeting currency, state radio reported ...
Iran claims production of new advanced drone
Iran's media is reporting the country has produced a domestically-made drone capable of hovering in midair. The Sunday report by several newspapers ...
Jordan court postpones verdict of ex-spy chief
A Jordanian criminal court says it has postponed a verdict in the case of a powerful former intelligence chief on trial for alleged embezzlement of ...
Al-Qaida-linked group in Burkina Faso for talks
Representatives of an al-Qaida-linked group that controls northern Mali arrived on Saturday in Burkina Faso for talks with President Blaise Compaore, ...
Sudan blocks UN force from investigating deaths
The international peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region said Saturday that its forces were blocked by the military from reaching the destination ...
Israel's Barak rejects Egypt remark made by aide
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has distanced himself from remarks made by one of his senior aides, who dubbed Egypt's government a "shocking ...
Israel president welcomes Abbas' refugee remarks
Israel's president on Saturday welcomed as "courageous" a strong public show of willingness by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to make concessions ...
Divided Syrian opposition faces feuds over leaders
Over the coming days, Syria's anti-regime camp will wrangle over reorganizing its ranks, as the United States pushes a proposal to create a new ...
Hezbollah under fire, but Lebanon hold is tight
A maze of military bunkers and tunnels carved into a mountain near the border with Israel hints at why the Shiite Hezbollah movement is unlikely to ...
Rights activist detained in Bahrain
A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a prominent human rights activist is in custody after defying an official ban on protest gatherings in the Gulf ...
Syrian tanks enter demilitarized Israeli frontier
Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights on Saturday, Israel said, raising concerns violence from Syria's civil war ...
Suicide bombers attack restaurant in Somalia
A police official says a security guard died while fending off suicide bombers who were trying to storm into a popular Mogadishu restaurant.
Kenya bull fight: Obama trounces Romney
If the U.S. presidential election were to be determined by a bull fight in Kenya then President Barack Obama would defeat Mitt Romney. On Saturday ...
Sudanese rebels deny recruiting child soldiers
A Sudanese rebel group denied United States accusations that it recruits child soldiers and maintains a military presence in a refugee camp in South ...