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Originally published: Jan 20, 2012 - 2:15 pm

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Opposition parties enforce strike in Bangladesh

Saturday, May 25, 9:43 pm
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Police say opposition activists have set off homemade bombs and smashed several vehicles in Bangladesh's capital as they enforce a general strike demanding that Prime Minister... Read more...
Suspected rebels kill 28, wound 24 in east India

Saturday, May 25, 9:11 pm
NEW DELHI (AP) - About 200 suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in the country's... Read more...
14 killed in new anti-terror Philippine offensive

Saturday, May 25, 8:56 pm
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - At least 14 Philippine marines and Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at rescuing six foreign and Filipino hostages and... Read more...
Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule

Saturday, May 25, 6:09 pm
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began... Read more...
Niger president says attackers came from Libya

Saturday, May 25, 3:51 pm
NIAMEY, Mali (AP) - Niger's president says suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern Libya. President Mahamadou... Read more...
Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier

Saturday, May 25, 2:43 pm
LONDON (AP) - Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act... Read more...
French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris

Saturday, May 25, 2:36 pm
PARIS (AP) - A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the... Read more...
Pistorius investigation to be finished by August

Saturday, May 25, 1:32 pm
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The police investigation into Oscar Pistorius' killing of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day won't be completed until August, prosecutors said Saturday, ahead of the double-amputee... Read more...
Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria

Saturday, May 25, 1:11 pm
BEIRUT (AP) - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would... Read more...
Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip

Saturday, May 25, 1:06 pm
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on... Read more...
Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine

Saturday, May 25, 12:41 pm
TORONTO (AP) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug.... Read more...
Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers

Saturday, May 25, 12:15 pm
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been assassinated in the past. They... Read more...
Egypt top court rules against religious slogans

Saturday, May 25, 11:57 am
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious... Read more...
Turkish couples kiss in subway in protest

Saturday, May 25, 11:54 am
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public. Turkish... Read more...
Iraq car bomb kills 6 Iranian pilgrims, 1 Iraqi

Saturday, May 25, 10:15 am
BAGHDAD (AP) - Two Iraqi police officers say a car bomb has exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad, killing six Iranians and one Iraqi. They added that 14 others... Read more...