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LONDON (AP) -- Not fit to run a major company. It is a damning judgment on Rupert Murdoch, a threat to his British assets - and a headache for Britain's government....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered....

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday took the unusual step of publicly insisting that a U.K. businessman who died in suspicious circumstances in China was not working as a British spy....

In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas officials say the Islamic militant movement has secretly chosen new leaders for Gaza, including previously sidelined pragmatists....

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- A hard-line Shiite cleric is meeting with the president of Iraq's Kurdish region to try to end a political crisis that has deadlocked the nation's government....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The lawyer for a jailed Bahraini activist on a lengthy hunger strike said Thursday he will seek a court order granting him visiting rights to his client....

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- In the heat of France's presidential election campaign, the French government insisted Thursday that if the European Union didn't back its tougher line to fight illegal immigration it would lead to the demise of the continent's borderless travel zone....

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers on Thursday inspected the site of a deadly explosion that flattened a block of houses in the central Syrian city of Hama a day earlier and killed at least 16 people....

BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) -- An official says that for the second day there were no reported attacks by Sudan on South Sudan, following a week or military incursions by both sides and aerial bombardments by Sudanese warplanes....

TOKYO (AP) -- Analysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt on the country's claims of military prowess....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- They gathered by the tens of thousands, aiming to face down terror with the power of music....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds."...

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States has issued a fresh security warning to Americans in Pakistan....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iranian-based Shiite Muslim cleric on Sunday published a religious edict that could undermine efforts to unseat the Iraqi prime minister and also signaled Iran's growing influence over Iraq's politics....

MOSCOW (AP) -- President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday defended his upcoming job swap with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a move that will strengthen democracy, and predicted they will rule Russia together "for a long time."...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Thousands of people who survived Sierra Leone's brutal civil war a decade ago celebrated Thursday after learning that Charles Taylor had been convicted for his role in the conflict that left behind countless amputees and traumatized former child soldiers....

LONDON (AP) -- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that he panicked when he closed the News of the World tabloid last year, one of a series of revealing exchanges made at an inquiry into British media ethics....

LONDON (AP) -- The rebound in European stock markets over the past couple of days ground to a halt Thursday following a mixed batch of corporate earnings and further evidence of a sharp slowdown in the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for blood diamonds....