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BEIJING (AP) -- Fang Lizhi, one of China's best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76....

VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long- stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats said Friday....

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- - Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Central American countries where they were born, the members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang swiftly grew into a force of heavily tattooed young men carrying out kidnappings, murder and extortion....

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- - Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Central American countries where they were born, the members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang swiftly grew into a force of heavily tattooed young men carrying out kidnappings, murder and extortion....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The U.S. sent a team of experts Sunday to help Pakistan search for 135 people buried a day earlier by a massive avalanche that engulfed a military complex in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border....

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- Malawi's government confirmed Saturday that President Bingu wa Mutharika is dead, and the vice president moved to take charge after more than a day of uncertainty over who was running this impoverished southern African country....

LONDON (AP) -- Christiaan Nagel scrambles up an aluminum ladder, carrying a big blue mushroom....

LONDON (AP) -- Christiaan Nagel scrambles up an aluminum ladder, carrying a big blue mushroom....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Christians gathered near Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was slain and buried....

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) -- Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has proven he doesn't only win elections easily, coming first in a car race he wasn't even supposed to take part in....

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) -- Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has proven he doesn't only win elections easily, coming first in a car race he wasn't even supposed to take part in....

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- The Malawi government confirmed the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika on Saturday, two days after the leader of the impoverished southern African country died....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- An avalanche smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border on Saturday, burying around 100 soldiers, the military said....

BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities have indicted five people in central China for involvement in illegal organ trading after a teenager sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and an iPad....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Gaza's Hamas rulers say they have executed three men in dawn hangings....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- An avalanche smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border on Saturday, burying around 100 soldiers, the military said....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says the country's navy has rescued 28 crew members of a Chinese ship hijacked by pirates....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Under intense pressure from the nations bordering Mali, the junior officer who seized control of the country in a coup last month signed an accord late Friday, agreeing to return the nation to constitutional rule....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Syria's government Friday for continuing to kill innocent civilians despite its commitment to pull all soldiers and heavy weapons out population centers by April 10....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Under intense pressure from the nations bordering Mali, the junior officer who seized control of the country in a coup last month signed an accord late Friday, agreeing to return the nation to constitutional rule....