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OSLO - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman on…

PARIS - Palestine has won a first diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood as UNESCO's executive committee backed its…

MOGADISHU - Somalia's Shebab on Wednesday vowed more attacks after a massive car bombing killed more than 70 people in…

YIXING, China - Prominent environmental activist Wu Lihong plunges his hands into a thick layer of toxic green scum and…

Egypt's deputy prime minister said on Sunday that his country was committed to a free market economy, after the ownership…

SIRTE, Libya - Streams of civilians fled Muammar Qadhafi’s besieged home town of Sirte on Sunday as the international Red…

An outspoken Jordanian opposition figure and former member of parliament has been pelted with stones while making a speech criticizing…

Washington - The planet closest to the Sun had plenty of its own heat to release billions of years ago…

LA PAZ - Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia's interior minister and a top official in leftist President Evo Morales' government, resigned over…

ASWAN - Egypt's once lucrative tourism industry has started to recover after an uprising in January nearly paralyzed it, but…