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Inmates at a prison in southern Brazil have taken seven staff hostage in the latest in a series of mutinies…

Agreements on climate change -- to paraphrase what the 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said about law-making -- are…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian who had been hurling rocks at cars on a highway in the occupied…

Dozens of Shiite clerics demonstrated in Bahrain on Monday against the detention of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman by the…

Lebanese soldiers fired into the air to disperse a protest on Monday against security measures near a town close to…

The machine gun poking out from between a framed portrait of a Shi'ite imam and a stuffed toy Minnie Mouse…

Rescuers battled in the dark to save nearly 300 passengers trapped on a burning Italian ferry as coastguards reported one…

A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to…

Oil prices rose on Monday, after dropping for the past two sessions, as escalating clashes in Libya stoked worries about supply from…

Indonesia called off until first light a search for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people from Indonesia's Surabaya to Singapore,…