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SANAA (Reuters) – Renewed fighting in Yemen's capital between a powerful tribal group and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces has killed at least 19 people this week and rocked Sanaa with explosions, officials said on Wednesday. Full Story »
Reuters BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - An explosion damaged a hotel used by rebels and foreigners in Libya's rebel-controlled eastern city of Benghazi Wednesday, wounding one person, police said. Full Story »
AP ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Twenty-five Pakistani security forces have been killed in fighting in northwest Pakistan after about 200 militants crossed over from Afghanistan and attacked a security checkpost, a government official said on Thursday. Full Story »
A controversial Turkish-born preacher, who never appears live in public, is spreading a Koran-inspired defense of creationism. For some young French Muslims, this frontal attack on Darwin rings true Full Story »
SINGAPORE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she supports French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund. Full Story »
AP SANAA, Yemen - Street battles between Yemeni government forces and armed tribesmen killed dozens of people Wednesday in this country teetering on the brink of civil war, forcing residents to cower in basements or brave gunfire to fetch bread and water. Full Story »
AP SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes says his Central American country will allow citizens living abroad to vote in the 2014 presidential election. Full Story »
AFP TRIPOLI (AFP) - Fresh NATO air raids shook Tripoli early Thursday as the United Nations accused both Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's regime and rebel forces of committing crimes against humanity in their 15-week conflict. Full Story »
HONG KONG - Luggage maker Samsonite International S.A. is planning to raise $1.5 billion from a listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday, joining a slew of foreign companies cashing in on investor interest in China. Full Story »
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada needs to put forward a more credible austerity package this year and next in order to prevent a structural budget deficit in the longer term, the country's budget watchdog said on Wednesday. Full Story »
AFP/File SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's conservative opposition was accused of sexism Thursday after a male senator meowed at a female senior minister, prompting a fiery debate in the nation's parliament. Full Story »
Kotkai, Pakistan - Osama bin Laden’s couriers, Arshad and Tariq Khan – who were killed alongside him during the raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan – were born and raised in Kuwait after their Pakistani father settled there to become an imam, according to relatives and other residents in their ancestral village. Full Story »
Editorial: In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the phase-out of nuclear energy in Germany has been decided so quickly, and with so little thought, that it skirts the edges of democratic legitimacy Full Story »
Kathmandu, Nepal - Nepal’s politicians, often pegged as excellent engineers of street protests but poor managers of state affairs, averted a political meltdown and clinched a deal this weekend that bought them three more months to sort out issues that have wracked the country for three years. Full Story »
TOKYO - Prime Minister Naoto Kan, facing a no-confidence vote in parliament, said Thursday he will consider resigning once Japan's efforts to recover from its earthquake and tsunami disaster take firm hold. Full Story »
AP BENGHAZI, Libya - A car exploded Wednesday in front of a hotel where foreign diplomats and journalists stay while visiting Benghazi, a rare attack in the Libyan rebels' de facto capital. Full Story »
Face to face at the White House, GOP leaders complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday that he had not produced a detailed plan of spending cuts and accused him of playing politics over Medicare as the nation careens toward a debt crisis. Full Story »
Missouri officials on Wednesday announced that 134 people died in the May 22 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri. Full Story »
On Tuesday, 97 Dems supported the idea of raising the debt ceiling without any spending cuts, saddling their party with a politically unpopular vote Full Story »
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