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Official: Syria fires Scud missiles at rebels
Syrian government forces have fired Scud missiles at insurgents in recent days, escalating the 2-year-old conflict against rebels seeking to overthrow ...
US hesitant in condemning North Korean launch
The Obama administration is drawing no "red line" for North Korea after a successful long-range rocket test, tempering the public condemnation to ...
Mali gets new prime minister after forced ouster
Mali's interim president has named a replacement prime minister after soldiers behind a coup earlier this year forced out his predecessor and placed ...
Mali's PM forced to resign, after arrest by junta
Soldiers arrested Mali's prime minister and forced him to resign before dawn on Tuesday, showing that the military remains the real power in this ...
Obama: US recognizes Syria's main rebel group
President Barack Obama declared Syria's main opposition group the sole "legitimate representative" of its country's people Tuesday, deeming the move ...
NKorea extends window, still readies rocket launch
North Korea is pressing ahead with preparation for a long-range rocket launch after extending its liftoff window by another week until Dec. 29 because ...
North Korea gears up to launch long-range rocket
North Korea is gearing up to fire a long-range rocket this month in a defiant move expected to raise the stakes of a global standoff over its missile ...
Egypt's president sets date for constitution vote
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi called Saturday for a referendum in two weeks on a contentious draft constitution, setting a date for another ...
Israel moves to build 3,000 new settlement homes
Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied ...
Suu Kyi wants gov't apology for violent crackdown
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday said authorities must apologize for a violent crackdown on monks and other foes of a mine in northwest ...
Internet service goes out across Syria
Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was ...
With Egypt's Morsi, US facing a familiar dilemma
The United States has been here before, praising an Egyptian leader for championing Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts while expressing concern over ...
France to recognize Palestinian state at UN
France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week. With the ...
China praises engineer in aircraft carrier program
China's government gave hero's praise to a senior engineer on its aircraft carrier program who died of a heart attack after witnessing the first ...
UN to vote Thursday on raising Palestinian status
The Palestinians said the U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday afternoon on a resolution raising their status at the United Nations from an ...
Egypt's president stands by his decrees
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi struck an uncompromising stand Monday over his seizure of near absolute powers, refusing in a meeting with top ...
Buzz kill: US won't send Andrew W.K. to Bahrain
Andrew W.K. won't be taking his party to Bahrain after all. The American performer announced on his website that he had been named a cultural ...
Fire breaks out at State Dept., 3 seriously hurt
Authorities say a fire broke out at the State Department headquarters in Washington, seriously injuring three maintenance workers. D.C. Fire and EMS ...
Egypt clashes as president defends his new powers
Supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi clashed Friday in the worst violence since he took office, while he defended a decision to give ...
South Sudan: Sudan aerial bombardment kills 7
Sudan carried out aerial bombardments on the northern part of South Sudan in the last three days, killing seven people and wounding others, a South ...
Israel-Hamas cease-fire remains elusive
Israel and the Hamas militant group edged closer to a cease-fire Tuesday to end a weeklong Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, but after a day of ...
US says Turkish rhetoric on Israel is 'unhelpful'
The Obama administration is criticizing its NATO ally Turkey for "extremely harsh" rhetoric in accusing Israel of terrorism in its current military ...
Afghan president: US violating detainee pact
Afghanistan's president accused U.S. forces of capturing and holding Afghans in violation of an agreement to turn over that responsibility to his ...
Syrian Islamists reject Western-backed opposition
Syria's increasingly powerful Islamist rebel factions rejected the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declared an ...
UN nuclear agency: Iran poised to expand nuke work
Iran is poised to double its output of higher-enriched uranium at its fortified underground facility, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday — a ...