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TEHRAN — Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two people on Wednesday, a semiofficial news agency reported.
The attack...
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday he will not step down, insisting that he still has his people's support despite a 10-month-old uprising against him.
In his fourth speech since the Syrian revolt began in March...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Haitians still have much to do to recover from the 2010 earthquake, President Michel Martelly said Monday, and he conceded to having made political blunders.
His remarks came as he presented his first government report...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his country's nuclear program as he began a four-nation tour of Latin America, joining his ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in accusing the US and its allies of using...
BEIRUT — Syria's embattled president will give his first speech Tuesday since he agreed last month to an Arab League plan to halt violence.
State-run media say Bashar al-Assad will talk about "domestic issues" and regional...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay.
"I wonder if the US government wants to keep us...
JERUSALEM — Israel's parliament on Tuesday approved harsh new penalties on illegal migrants and Israelis who help them, passing one of several controversial measures designed to stanch the flood of Africans seeking sanctuary from poverty...
Lawyers for victims in the trial of Hosni Mubarak accused the head of Egypt's ruling military council and the ex-vice president of lying to the court by testifying that they did not know if ousted leader ordered the killing of protesters.
The 83...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan investigators accused the American military Saturday of abusing detainees at its main prison in the country, bolstering calls by President Hamid Karzai for the US to turn over control of the facility and...
The resemblance is striking: the full cheeks and quick smile, the confident gait, the habit of gesturing with both hands when he speaks.
North Korea's young new leader, Kim Jong-un, appears to be fashioning himself as the reincarnation of Kim Il...
