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Her screams were not drowned out by the clamor of the crazed mob of nearly 200 men around her. An endless number of hands reached toward the woman in the red shirt in an assault scene that lasted less than 15 minutes but felt more like an hour.
She...
GAUHATI, India — Large biting spiders have sparked panic in remote northeast India, but health authorities fear primitive treatment of the bites' painful swelling may be more dangerous than the spiders themselves.
Two people died in...
A group of disgruntled militiamen took over Libya's main airport on Monday, storming it with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles and forcing airport authorities to divert flights, a security official said.
Mohamed al-Gharyani of Tripoli...
An Egyptian official says the top prosecutor will appeal the verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial, which acquitted the former leader and his two sons on corruption charges and cleared senior police officers of complicity in killing protesters during...
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied Sunday that his government had anything to do with last week's gruesome Houla massacre, saying not even "monsters" would carry out such an ugly crime.
In a televised speech to...
BEIRUT — Security officials say clashes between pro and anti-Syrian groups in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli have killed at least one person and wounded five.
The officials say the fighting started shortly before midnight Friday and...
KHARTOUM, Sudan— Nearly 30 Africa-based rights groups have signed a letter condemning Sudan for sentencing a 20-year-old woman to death by stoning over charges of adultery.
The statement, signed and released...
BEIRUT — Activists say Syrian troops are shelling the central Houla area where more than 100 people were massacred last week.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist groups say...
SANAA — Yemen's Defense Ministry says air and artillery strikes have killed 10 Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the south of the country.
The statement said the air raid targeted a militant communication station near the southern coastal...
SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni military officials say fighting in two southern flashpoint towns has left 27 Al-Qaeda fighters and seven soldiers dead, and a top commander says the army is pushing the militants out of the area.
The officials say 20...
