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Syrian helicopters bomb border area near Turkey
Syrian activists say regime forces have attacked a border area with Turkey using helicopters and artillery after rebels captured a crossing point.
Help for blighted suburbs meets French hostility
When the blighted housing projects ringing major French cities exploded in nationwide riots, France pledged quick action to fix them. Seven years on, ...
Jordan sentences ex-intelligence chief to prison
A Jordanian criminal court sentenced the kingdom's ex-intelligence chief on Sunday to 13 years and three months in prison for embezzlement of public ...
Girl: She hid behind dad during Afghan massacre
Little Robina took her seat wearing a deep-red head covering and a nervous smile, ready to tell her story. She giggled as any 7-year-old in the ...
Developments in Britain's child sex-abuse scandal
The BBC's top executive, George Entwistle, resigned Saturday night amid a flood of controversy over the broadcaster's handling of child sex-abuse ...
APNewsBreak: Mideast nuke talks called off
Attempts to find Arab-Israeli common ground on banning weapons of mass destruction from the Mideast have failed, and high-profile talks on the issue ...
Stagnant US exports to Cuba belie fair's optimism
Kellogg's. Gatorade. Hormel. Hunt. Many of America's best-known brands were on display at a Havana exposition center this past week as representatives ...
China says 18-year-old Tibetan self-immolates
An 18-year-old Tibetan villager died after setting himself on fire in northwest China in the latest of a half-dozen such self-immolations reported ...
China leadership transition formally edges forward
China's leadership transition has formally edged ahead, with the executive body of the Communist Party Congress forwarding a list of names to congress ...
Official: Guinea treasury chief assassinated
The head of Guinea's treasury was gunned down as she was driving home in what her colleagues describe as a brazen assassination aimed at silencing an ...
Argentine crew prevents Ghana from moving ship
Sailors aboard an Argentina navy sailing ship seized in a billion-dollar international debt controversy brandished weapons to block Ghanaian officials ...
Algerian official warns against Mali intervention
An international military intervention into Mali at this time would be useless, a top advisor to Algeria's president said Saturday. The remarks by ...
After attack on jeep, Israeli army kills 4 in Gaza
Palestinian militants fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli jeep patrolling the border with Gaza and the Israelis fired back into the Palestinian ...
Syria's opposition urges West to send rebels arms
The newly elected leader of Syria's main opposition group slammed the international community for what he called inaction, saying Saturday that ...
Four killed in Egypt train collision
Two trains traveling south of the Egyptian capital collided on Saturday, killing at least four people, officials said. An error from the switch ...
Congo: Rebels say government forces attack
The Congolese army has attacked M23 rebel positions, ending a two-month ceasefire, charged the rebel spokesman. Ten civilians were killed when ...
Bahrain Guard forces deploy against unrest
Bahrain's paramilitary National Guard deployed into new areas around the violence-wracked Gulf nation Saturday in an apparent sign that authorities ...
Liberians launch campaign against gay marriage
A few hundred Liberians representing the Christian and Muslim faiths and civil society organizations gathered here Saturday to launch a campaign to ...
Pope resurrects Latin with academy to boost study
The Vatican is trying to resurrect Latin. Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree Saturday creating a new pontifical academy for Latin studies to try to ...
Iraq reconsiders $4 billion Russian arms plans
Iraq is reconsidering plans to buy more than $4 billion in arms from Russia, officials said Saturday, throwing the proposed purchase into question ...
Vatican computer tech convicted in leaks scandal
A Vatican court on Saturday convicted a Holy See computer technician of helping the former papal butler in the embarrassing leak of confidential papal ...
French mayor on hunger strike to protest budget
The mayor of a French town struggling with poverty is on a hunger strike in front of the National Assembly to protest what he calls "financial penury" ...
Vatican digs in after gay marriage advances
The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in the U.S. and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that ...
UK teen jailed for robbing jewelry stores
British police say a 16-year-old boy who used prosthetics and dreadlocks to conduct armed robberies in disguise has been jailed for five years.
Calls for inquest into reported Iran blogger death
A prominent press freedom group has joined the U.S. State Department to demand Iran conduct a full investigation into the reported death of a jailed ...