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Tehran--Iran's hard-line president on Wednesday ridiculed President Barack Obama's new nuclear strategy, which turns the US focus away from the Cold War threats and instead aims to stop the spread of atomic weapons to rogue states or terrorists....
Khartoum--Southern Sudan's main political party said Tuesday it would boycott this week's local and parliamentary polls in the country's northern provinces, a move that further erodes the credibility of Sudan's first multiparty elections in decades...
Bishkek Kyrgyzstan--Violence erupted in this strategic Central Asian nation Wednesday as thousands of protesters angry over the arrests of opposition leaders tried to seize the main government building in the capital after chasing and beating up...
Makhachkala, Russia--Two powerful explosions derailed a cargo train Sunday in the violence-plagued Russian province of Dagestan but no one was injured, officials said. The blasts capped a week of daily attacks that have killed at least 55 people.
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Baghdad—Suicide attackers detonated three car bombs near foreign embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 31 people, authorities said.
Suicide attackers detonated the bombs within minutes of each other Sunday. One exploded near the...
Wheatland Township, Michigan, US--A ninth alleged member of a Christian militia group that prepared to battle the Antichrist and the US government was arrested after the FBI played recorded messages from family and friends, who urged the man to give...
Ottawa--Iran's nuclear program is of "critical concern" and will top the agenda when foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations meet Monday to discuss global security, Canada's foreign minister said.
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Dakar, Senegal--At least 321 civilians were killed in a previously unreported massacre in Congo in late 2009, while villagers that escaped their rebel captors were sent back with their lips and ears cut off as a warning to others of what would...
Jerusalem--Two Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian civilian were killed Friday as a gunbattle between troops and Palestinian militants widened into some of the fiercest fighting in the Gaza Strip since Israel's military offensive there last year....
Amman--Jordan's king warned Israel in a rare public rebuke that it is "playing with fire" with its settlement policy, and said in comments published Thursday the Jewish state must decide whether it wants peace or war.
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