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MOGADIAHU, Somalia (AP) -- Somali pirates holding a British woman hostage for six months gave her medicine but did not tell Judith Tebbutt they had killed her husband during an attack on their Kenyan beach resort....

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) -- Mauritania will hand over former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi - one of Moammar Gadhafi's closest associates who also is wanted by the International Criminal Court - for trial in his home country, a Libyan official said Wednesday....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Concealed by the night sky, the two aging Philippine air force planes unleashed a surprise high-tech weapon: U.S. satellite-guided bombs that whizzed down with deadly precision toward a long-elusive terrorist suspect and two other top radicals dozing with their men in Jolo Island's jungle....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Concealed by the night sky, the two aging Philippine air force planes unleashed a surprise high-tech weapon: U.S. satellite-guided bombs that whizzed down with deadly precision toward a long-elusive terrorist suspect and two other top radicals dozing with their men in Jolo Island's jungle....

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The Interamerican Court of Human Rights has condemned the Chilean government for denying her custody of her three daughters because she is a lesbian....

VLADNIC, Romania (AP) -- Their origins are a mystery. The most widely accepted theory is that the Csango people of Romania's remote eastern Carpathian mountains began settling around the 13th Century, dispatched by Hungarian rulers to defend the kingdom's easternmost frontier....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq claimed responsibility Wednesday for a wave of attacks that killed 46 people across the country this week and said the violence exposes how weak government security is ahead of the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq claimed responsibility Wednesday for a wave of attacks that killed 46 people across the country this week and said the violence exposes how weak government security is ahead of the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- French police were preparing to storm an apartment building in Toulouse on Wednesday to arrest a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida, a top police official said....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Concealed by the night sky, the two aging Philippine air force planes unleashed a surprise high-tech weapon: U.S. satellite-guided bombs that whizzed down with deadly precision toward a long-elusive terrorist suspect and two other top radicals dozing with their men in Jolo Island's jungle....

LOMMEL, Belgium (AP) -- King Albert II and thousands of mourners on Wednesday remembered the 28 victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel during a memorial service centering on the 22 schoolchildren whose promise of youth was shattered by sudden death....

LOMMEL, Belgium (AP) -- King Albert II and thousands of mourners on Wednesday remembered the 28 victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel during a memorial service centering on the 22 schoolchildren whose promise of youth was shattered by sudden death....

LOMMEL, Belgium (AP) -- King Albert II and thousands of mourners attended a memorial service Wednesday for victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel that killed 22 children and six adults....

BEIJING (AP) -- The Chinese government said Wednesday that lawyers are now required to swear allegiance to the Communist Party, a move criticized by prominent human rights lawyers who have defended the authoritarian government's critics....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Relatives sobbed inconsolably by the gravesides of a rabbi and three children gunned down at a Jewish school in France and brought to Jerusalem for burial on Wednesday....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- French police surrounded an apartment building where a gunman claiming al-Qaida links and suspected in the killings of three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers barricaded himself Wednesday and stopped talking to negotiators....

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- When Taiwanese security personnel detained a suspected spy for China at a top secret military base last month, they may have had a sense of deja vu....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Mexico this week to a very public reminder of one of the Catholic Church's most egregious sex abuse scandals: A new book says internal Vatican documents show the Holy See knew decades ago of allegations that the Mexican founder of the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order was a drug addict and pedophile....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Mexico this week to a very public reminder of one of the Catholic Church's most egregious sex abuse scandals: A new book says internal Vatican documents show the Holy See knew decades ago of allegations that the Mexican founder of the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order was a drug addict and pedophile....

For more than a year the deadly protests have swept the Tibetan plateau, waves of people burning themselves alive in a widening challenge to Chinese rule....