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Land conflicts stunt Vietnam urban planning dreams
Do Quoc Tai is an unlikely pain in the side of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party. Although the construction foreman earns just $150 per month, he and ...
Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
Egyptians say they want their next leader to be honorable, smart, a knight, a man with a heart, a military man, a religious man, one who goes down and ...
Clinton: US wars with al-Qaida on the web
The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads ...
Officials: Injured Mali president heads to France
Mali's interim president, who was beaten by a mob of demonstrators who broke into his office this week, has left the country to seek medical treatment ...
Syria says sanctions have cost country $4 billion
Syria's oil minister blamed international sanctions Wednesday for shortages of cooking gas and other basic goods, saying the measures have bled $4 ...
Egyptians vote in first free presidential election
More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for ...
A nation-by-nation look at Arab Spring's progress
On Wednesday, Egypt began its first free presidential election since it came under dictatorship 60 years ago. The winner will succeed Hosni Mubarak, ...
Hezbollah appeals for calm after Syria kidnapping
The leader of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah has appealed for calm after people blocked roads and burned tires in Beirut to protest the ...
Malaysian opposition's Anwar charged over protest
Malaysian prosecutors have again charged the government's most prominent challenger, alleging that he and two allies broke various laws during a ...
Chicago police get high marks for NATO protests
The sight of Chicago police raising billy clubs against demonstrators was the kind of image that has dogged the city's police force longer than most ...
W. African group probes attack on Mali president
West Africa's regional bloc said Tuesday it will impose sanctions on those it finds responsible for allowing an attack on Mali's president at his ...
Myanmar power cuts draw protest in main city
A small group of demonstrators carried candles and tied up traffic in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday evening as discontent grows over chronic power ...
Russian lawmakers slap big sanctions on protesters
President Vladimir Putin targeted those who dare oppose him Tuesday, introducing draconian new fines for protesters and handing out Kremlin jobs to ...
Spain teachers, students strike over spending cuts
Teachers and students from every level of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, erecting ...
Security beefed up at German magazine after threat
Security has been stepped up for employees of a German magazine and for members of a small far-right party after a known terrorist called for them to ...
Surgical scars some see as racist provoke SD march
Hundreds of people marched Monday in support of a man who says the letters KKK were carved into his stomach by a surgeon at a South Dakota hospital.
After NATO summit, questions about protest mindset
For activists, the NATO summit in Chicago served as one big stage from which to air a broad range of grievances — not just the war in Afghanistan or ...
12,500 police at Olympics as UK learns from riots
British police will deploy around 12,500 officers to protect the Olympic Games after facing strong criticism for their lack of manpower and slow ...
Interim president of Mali injured by protesters
Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president on Monday and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local ...
Algeria opposition front to boycott parliament
A new Algerian opposition front of 14 small political parties has announced it will boycott the new parliament, calling its election fraudulent.
Pilgrims allowed back into Azerbaijan monastery
Pilgrims to one of former Soviet Georgia's most renowned monasteries, part of which lies in Azerbaijan, are again able to visit the entire complex ...
Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon
Syria's war barreled over the border with an angry, raucous funeral Monday for an anti-Syrian cleric whose killing set off a night of deadly street ...
Miss. prison riot leaves guard dead, 8 hurt
A prison guard was killed Sunday during a riot that also injured five other correctional officers and hurt three inmates at a privately run facility ...
Protesters march through Chicago to NATO summit
Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday in one of the city's largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, ...
Police: 45 arrested, 4 officers hurt in protests
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the protests of the NATO Summit resulted in 45 people being arrested and four officers suffering ...