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Iraq confirms arrest of minister's bodyguards
Iraqi authorities said Friday they've arrested 10 bodyguards of the country's Sunni finance minister in a terrorism-related sweep, the first official ...
Labor Dept. urges talks over Bahrain labor unrest
The government of Bahrain has fallen short of commitments to recognize labor rights and prevent employment discrimination under a free trade agreement ...
New tensions in Egypt over top prosecutor
Egypt's top prosecutor retracted his resignation on Thursday, a decision that could cause a new uproar in the country after he was accused of ...
Fear keeps Egypt's Christians away from polls
A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week's referendum ...
Outrage grows in India over gang-rape on bus
The hours-long gang-rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country ...
Greek public sector cutbacks trigger strike
Civil servants in Greece staged a 24-hour strike Wednesday, as thousands gathered to protest new pay cuts as well as suspensions that are expected to ...
China is top dam builder, going where others won't
Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the ...
NRA promises to help prevent school shootings
After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's largest gun ...
Egypt's Alexandria gripped by feud over future
The Qaed Ibrahim mosque, revered by Alexandrines as the embodiment of their Mediterranean city's cosmopolitan heritage, has become a battleground ...
Egypt orders probe into alleged vote violations
Thousands of Egyptian protesters marched on the presidential palace and Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest a contentious ...
In Syrian rebel training, motivation trumps skills
Sixteen grunting rebel fighters dropped down for pushups in a rain-slick backyard, practiced storming a house from the cover of an olive grove, and ...
Oil, gas drilling rile West's energy embrace
This used to be a land proud of its oil barons. Now the energy industry that has brought wealth and jobs across the interior West is prompting angry ...
Spanish PM defends year of austerity amid protests
Spain's prime minister defended his conservative government's imposition of austerity measures during its first year in power on Monday, even as ...
Bahrain protesters challenge police in capital
Security forces in Bahrain fired tear gas and arrested protesters Monday during marches in the traditional market area of the Gulf nation's capital, ...
Ethiopian Muslim activists deny terror charges
A group of more than two dozen Ethiopian Muslims pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of terrorism. Federal prosecutors are accusing the group, ...
Russian opposition fights to stay relevant
Speaking to more than 100,000 protesters who thronged a Moscow street last December, charismatic anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny said Russia's ...
Protests flare in Bahrain after king's speech
Activists in Bahrain say police have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters who took to the streets after an annual address by the Gulf nation's ...
Activists protest pope's comment on gay marriage
Activists angered by Pope Benedict XVI's recent comment about gay marriage have held a small protest in St. Peter's Square during the pontiff's weekly ...
Kuwait's emir digs in against opposition
Security forces blocked hundreds of protesters from staging a rally outside the parliament building Sunday as Kuwait's emir denounced anti-government ...
Myanmar gov't apologizes for crackdown violence
Myanmar's government formally apologized Saturday to the country's Buddhist monks for its recent crackdown on protesters at a copper mine that injured ...
Unauthorized anti-Putin rally draws thousands
Thousands of opposition supporters gathered Saturday outside the old KGB headquarters in central Moscow to mark a year of mass protests against ...
Tempers rise ahead of vote on Egypt charter
Waving swords and clubs, Islamist supporters of Egypt's draft constitution clashed with opponents in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria on ...
Hamas stages new marches in West Bank
Hamas has staged new rallies in the West Bank, one day after thousands of its activists turned out for the first marches there by the militant group ...
Russian investigators accuse Navalny of fraud
Russian investigators on Friday accused a prominent opposition leader of fraud and money-laundering, intensifying legal pressure on the anti-Kremlin ...
Jackie Chan suggests Hong Kong curb protest rights
Jackie Chan suggests in a recent interview that protests should be restricted in the freewheeling Chinese city of Hong Kong. The action star lamented ...