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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's president has assured his South Korean counterpart that his country will no longer buy weapons from North Korea, while conceding it had done so to some extent over the past 20 years....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened....

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Insurance company Allianz SE says its profits rose 58 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, when it had big payouts for natural disasters including the tsunami in Japan....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- EU finance ministers are haggling in Brussels over rules to force banks to build up higher capital cushions to protect them against financial shocks, with the U.K. running the risk of being isolated in its position....

PARIS (AP) -- France gets a new president as Francois Hollande is sworn in as the country's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades at a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in central Paris....

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station....

BOSTON (AP) -- While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day....

CADEREYTA, Mexico (AP) -- Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing evidence that innocents are being pulled into the bloodbath along with gang rivals....

RT.com | Human Rights Watch report slams NATO for downplaying 72 Libyan civilian deaths during 2011.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to a yet another emergency meeting Tuesday that could see the reins of government surrendered to non-politicians....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to a yet another emergency meeting Tuesday that could see the reins of government surrendered to non-politicians....

CNN | Caesar Achellam, 'big fish' and top commander of Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, has been captured.

CS Monitor | Thousands of Palestinian prisoners end their weeks-long hunger strike lobbying for better jail conditions.

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood pinned its hopes Friday on weekend elections to salvage its waning political fortunes, responding to a court order dissolving its power base in parliament by urging voters to support the Islamist group's candidate for president....

MSNBC | Report shows TSA does a poor job of tracking security breaches at airports.

Red Ice Creations | Futuristic town in New Mexico not taking new-resident applications.

Washington's Blog | 12-year-old Victoria Grant: "...the banks and the government have colluded to financially enslave the people of Canada."

KAKOLA, Uganda (AP) -- American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab....

KAKOLA, Uganda (AP) -- American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab....