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UN ambassador says Libya attack was spontaneous
A deadly assault on a U.S. consulate in Libya was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said ...
Rebels step up attacks on Colombia energy targets
The port town of Tumaco on Colombia's Pacific coast went dark for more than a week in early August after guerrillas toppled three electricity towers ...
Paris prosecutor to probe protest at US Embassy
The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation Sunday regarding a protest around the American Embassy that drew hundreds of people angry over ...
China aims at Japan's economy in island protests
Chinese are trying to hurt Japan economically for leverage in a bitter dispute over contested islands, turning to angry protests and calls for ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Iran
The issue: With the Iraq war over and Afghanistan winding down, Iran is the most likely place for a new U.S. military conflict. Despite unprecedented ...
Iran commander warns Israel, US against attack
The top commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that his country's missiles will ensure "nothing will remain" of Israel if it ...
Last big group of Iranian exiles moves to Baghdad
The last big batch of a group of controversial Iranian exiles in Iraq reluctantly left their decades-old home in northeast Iraq on Sunday and moved ...
Israeli airline vows to cancel flights to Cairo
Israel's national airline will stop flying to Cairo, even though the Israel-Egypt peace treaty mandates flights to the country, the CEO of EL AL ...
More anti-Japan protests in China over islands
Security personnel tightened their guard of the Japanese Embassy on Sunday as crowds of Chinese continued to protest in the capital and across the ...
Panetta: violence leveling off; protests to go on
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the turmoil raging across the Muslim world is likely to continue into the days ahead, but he says the ...
Israeli military moves major operations to south
The Israeli military has begun construction of its largest training base ever, moving operations from some of the country's priciest real estate to ...
US orders some diplomats out of Sudan, Tunisia
The State Department on Saturday ordered the departure of all family members and non-essential U.S. government personnel from its embassies in Sudan ...
US official: Sudan balks at Marine troop mission
Objections by Sudan's government have held up the security mission of an elite Marine team that the U.S. planned to send to Khartoum, a U.S.
Al-Qaida calls for more attacks on embassies
Al-Qaida's most active branch in the Middle East called for more attacks on U.S. embassies Saturday to "set the fires blazing," seeking to co-opt ...
Obama, Romney square off on China, jobs
Competing for white working-class voters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney squared off Saturday on China and accused each other of ...
Syria envoy says no plan to end violence yet
The new international envoy tasked with ending Syria's civil war summed up his first foray to Damascus Saturday with a startling and frank admission ...
With 7 weeks to go, Obama-Romney race still tight
Middle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, ...
Tunisia's ruling party condemns US Embassy attack
Tunisia's governing moderate Islamist party condemned the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tunis and the neighboring American school, saying Saturday ...
US scrambles to rush spies, drones to Libya
The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for those who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other ...
Obama pays tribute to Americans killed in Libya
President Barack Obama paid tribute to the Americans killed in Libya and denounced the violence and anti-U.S. mob protests apparently sparked by an ...
Angelina Jolie pushes plight of refugees in Iraq
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is in Iraq meeting with leaders about the plight of an estimated 50,000 refugees who fled to escape violence in Syria.
University of Texas defends bomb threat response
University of Texas officials were defending their decision to wait more than an hour before evacuating due to a bomb threat, one of three such ...
Bomb threats prompt evacuations at 3 campuses
Thousands of people streamed off three college campuses Friday after bomb threats prompted officials to issue evacuation orders for schools in Texas, ...
Violence erupts at protests of anti-Muslim film
Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American ...
Foreign policy at forefront is a Romney hurdle
With protests at U.S. embassies and four Americans dead, Mitt Romney is suddenly facing a presidential election focused on a foreign policy crisis he ...