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SEOUL (Reuters) - An exchange of gunfire across the heavily armed border between the two Koreas last week was likely an accident and not a deliberate provocation by the prickly North, a top lawmaker and former army general said on Monday. Full Story »

• Slideshow: North Korea

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A U.S. war crimes tribunal on Sunday sentenced a young Canadian to 40 years in prison, but he may serve only a few more years under a deal that included his admission he was an al Qaeda conspirator who murdered a U.S. soldier. Full Story »

Burma: Hope Among the Young Full Story »

LONDON - Coast guards say that a group of teenage sailors from Poland have arrived safely in the U.K. after their tall ship was battered by a storm. Full Story »

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 47 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday. Full Story »

• Video: Hostages held in Iraqi church siege Reuters
• Slideshow: Iraq

SAO PAULO - From three years in a dictatorship's jail cell to just two months away from the presidential palace, the journey has been long for Brazil's newly elected leader Dilma Rousseff, who will be the first woman to direct Latin America's biggest nation. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Dilma Rouseff

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Officials say an attack by Islamic militants against government soldiers in the Somali capital has left at least 15 people dead. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Somalia Unrest

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The United States and Cambodia agreed on Monday to resume negotiations on settling a $445 million debt accumulated by a U.S.-backed Cambodian military regime in the early 1970s. Full Story »

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian teenager who climbed onto a whale and rode on its back has said he never intended to hurt the animal and had been acting instinctively when he put his arms around the massive sea creature. Full Story »

Istanbul, Turkey - A suicide bomber targeted Turkish police in the heart of Istanbul on Sunday, killing himself, injuring 32, and prompting police gunfire. Full Story »

Reshaping British Politics from Within Full Story »

Sanaa, Yemen - On Sunday evening local time, the Yemeni government released bomber suspect Hanan Al Samawi and her mother, according to Samawi's lawyer Abdulrahman Barman, of the National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms. Full Story »

WICHITA, Oct 29 (New America Media) - If he wins on November 2, Raj Goyle would make history as the first-ever Indian American elected to Congress from Kansas. But Goyle doesn’t want to focus on that. Full Story »

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent - No longer a hurricane, Tropical Storm Tomas swirled over warm Caribbean waters early Monday and forecasters warned it could regain power and pose a threat to the crowded quake refugee camps in Haiti. Full Story »

• Video: Hurricane Tomas weakens to Category 1 storm AP
• Slideshow: Tropical Storms and Hurricanes

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia - Indonesia's most volatile volcano — one of 22 that have been increasingly active — spewed searing clouds of gas and debris for hours Monday in its most powerful eruption in a deadly week. No new casualties were immediately reported. Full Story »

• Video: Raw Video: Volcano erupts again in Indonesia AP
• Slideshow: Indonesia tsunami death toll climbs