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Constitutional fight over Chavez status intensifies

A constitutional fight over ailing President Hugo Chavez`s status intensified Tuesday with the government planning a ...

Japan to boost military budget amid China row

Japan will increase military spending in 2013 for the first time in more than a decade, the ruling party said Tuesday, ...

France votes as Sarkozy era hangs by thread

French voters headed to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a presidential election that is expected to mark ...

Ahmadinejad vows to defend territorial integrity

Iran will respond with force to any threats to its territorial integrity, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on ...

Israel: 1.200 Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strike

Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike and another 2,300 are refusing food ...

Syrian government pulls back troops from armed conflict areas: fm

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said on Tuesday that the Syrian government has pulled back troops from cities in ...

Tutu urge China to talk to Dalai Lama

Twelve Nobel laureates including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu have written to China`s president urging him to ...

Syria accepts april 10 peace deadline: Annan

Syria has agreed to "immediately" start pulling troops out of protest cities, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said ...

Triple bomb attack kills nine in Thailand

Three bomb attacks minutes apart killed nine people and wounded more than 100 on Saturday in the main town in ...

Israeli troops kill Palestinian protester in Gaza: medics

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man in northern Gaza on Friday after a day of protest which saw thousands ...

Police find molotov cocktails on toll road

Security personnel found four Molotov cocktail gasoline bombs when they combed a toll road that demonstrators had ...

Police use water cannons to disperse demonstrators

Police used water cannons, firecrackers and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting in front of the parliament ...

Demonstrators block toll road to protest fuel price hike

Thousands of demonstrators protesting the government`s plan to raise fuel oil prices blocked the toll road in front of ...

Two UN workers, four Shiites killed in Pakistan: police

Gunmen separately killed four Shiite Muslims and two local UN employees Thursday in Baluchistan, a Pakistani province ...

Thousands of workers rally in front of parliament office

Thousands of workers from various labor unions rallied in front of the House of Representatives building in Central ...