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SOFIA — A third Bulgarian man died Sunday after setting himself on fire amid protests against growing poverty and corruption in the European Union's poorest country, hospital officials said.
Ventsislav Vasilev, a 53-year-old unemployed...
Discontent in Egypt's police ranks has boiled over into an unprecedented strike, with officers saying they will refuse orders until they are no longer used as political pawns, adding to the problems of President Mohamed Morsy.
Accused of...
Just hours before a high-profile ceremony, the United States Friday canceled an award to an Egyptian activist after learning she had praised the 9/11 attacks and the killing of Israelis.
Samira Ibrahim was to be honored along with nine other women...
Hugo Chavez will enter a waxy afterlife when he is embalmed and put on permanent display in Venezuela, giving his backers a powerful propaganda tool to ensure his populist movement survives his death.
Preserving Chavez's body and fixing his face...
The ill-treatment of Palestinian minors held within the Israeli military detention system is "widespread, systematic and institutionalized," claims a new report published Wednesday by the UN children's fund.
UNICEF’s report...
The number of Syrians who have fled their country since a deadly civil conflict erupted two years ago has hit one million, the UN's refugee agency said Wednesday.
"With a million people in flight, millions more displaced internally, and...
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez lost his battle with cancer Tuesday, his death silencing the leading voice of the Latin American left and putting the oil-rich nation on a path to early elections.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who struggled...
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International urged Saudi authorities to halt Tuesday's scheduled executions of seven young men condemned for crimes committed when they were minors.
The two rights groups said in separate statements that...
President Bashar al-Assad said his regime has conquered the "conspiracy" against it, even as rebels overran the capital of Raqa province and captured its governor in the biggest success of their revolt.
Assad, in comments published...
A record 259 nominees are in the running for this year's Nobel Peace Prize—209 individuals and 50 organisations—with the laureate to be announced in October, the Nobel Institute said on Monday.
The list is known to include...
