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Tehran--Iran said Tuesday that its security forces have captured the leader of an armed Sunni group whose insurgency in the southeast has destabilized the border region with Pakistan.
The Jundallah group had no immediate comment on the reports that...
Darfur's leading rebel group and the government of Sudan have a bitter history of failed cease-fires and peace deals. But upcoming elections and dramatically improved ties with neighboring Chad have raised hopes that a truce to be signed Tuesday...
Tel Nof Air Force Base, Israel – Israel's air force on Sunday introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and could fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting rival Iran within its range.
The Heron TP...
Amsterdam--Top UN climate change official Yvo de Boer said Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal.
His departure takes effect July 1, five...
Kabul-- Two Taliban shadow governors from northern Afghanistan have been arrested by Pakistani authorities, an Afghan official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Mohammmad Omar, the official governor of Kunduz province, said two of the...
Seoul, South Korea-- North Koreans celebrated "peerlessly brilliant" leader Kim Jong Il's 68th birthday Tuesday as questions persist abroad about his health and the future of the impoverished, nuclear-armed nation.
Depressed and...
Gaza-– Take this for a measure of Gaza's economic woes: When the territory's Hamas rulers announced plans to hire about 1000 new policemen, 15,000 applied.
Only a few of those reporting for fitness tests one recent afternoon expressed an...
Rome-- Milan's deputy mayor says the fatal stabbing of an Egyptian immigrant man triggered a street rampage between immigrant gangs that left cars damaged and store windows smashed.
Riccardo De Corato told the Italian news agency ANSA that the clash...
Marjah, Afghanistan-- Squads of US Marines and Afghan soldiers slowly pressed deeper into the Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Sunday, painstakingly clearing out booby-trapped houses one by one.
Homemade bombs and mines slowed the advance of...
New York-- McDonald's Inc., the world's largest fast-food chain, said Tuesday a key sales comparison rose 2.6 percent in January, as strong overseas sales more than offset a decline in the US.
McDonald's has generally fared well in the recession as...
