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PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande charged back into campaign mode Monday with momentum on his side to capture France's presidency, after the Socialist won the most votes in the first round of voting that put him into a runoff with conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea promised Monday to reduce South Korea's conservative government "to ashes" in less than four minutes, in an unusually specific escalation of recent threats aimed at its southern rival....

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The European Union on Monday suspended its sanctions against Myanmar for a year following a wave of widely praised political reforms in the country, but will retain an embargo on arms sales, officials said....

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Dutch government was close to collapse on Monday, with the prime minister widely expected to resign after top-level talks on an austerity package failed....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's election result has eased fears of imminent financial disaster for Europe, but the continent's leaders are still searching for a way to contain a debt crisis that threatens the global economy....

BANGKOK (AP) -- World stocks skidded lower Monday after budget talks in the Netherlands collapsed over the weekend and a Socialist who wants to put France's austerity plans in reverse won the first round of the country's presidential election....

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande charged back into campaign mode Monday with momentum on his side to capture France's presidency, after the Socialist won the most votes in the first round of voting that put him into a runnoff with conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian semiofficial news agency reports that the country has disconnected its main crude oil terminal from the Internet to avoid being attacked by computer malware....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Key independent lawmakers said Monday that they will stand by Australia's embattled government after the parliamentary speaker temporarily stepped aside over allegations of sexual harassment and fraud....

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- When Lady Gaga launches her hotly anticipated "Born This Way Ball" world tour Friday on what is expected to be an elaborate castle-like stage, fans in Asia will be the first to see it....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's military vowed Monday to launch unspecified "special actions" soon meant to reduce South Korea's conservative government and media companies "to ashes" in less that four minutes, in an escalation of its recent threats....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party refused to take its new seats in parliament Monday because of a dispute over one word in the lawmakers' oath, but party officials played down the problem and said they expected it to be overcome by early May....

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande, a mild-mannered French Socialist, is heading into a presidential runoff election with the upper hand over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy after winning the most votes in the first round of voting....

TOKYO (AP) -- A teenager who lost his home in Japan's devastating tsunami now knows that one prized possession survived: a football that drifted all the way to Alaska....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi and the other newly elected lawmakers in Myanmar's leading opposition party boycotted parliament Monday, but party officials expect their dispute over the oath of office to be resolved soon....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's top foreign policy official has met a North Korean delegation and expressed confidence in the country's young leader just over a week after Pyongyang conducted a rocket launch that Beijing had discouraged....

TOKYO (AP) -- Good thing Misaki Murakami's name was on his soccer ball. It was lost in last year's tsunami in Japan but has been found across the Pacific on a remote Alaskan island....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone....

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande, a mild-mannered French Socialist who wants to take better care of the jobless and the poor, is heading to a presidential runoff election against tough-on-immigration Nicolas Sarkozy in a vote that could alter Europe's political and economic landscape....

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande, a mild-mannered French Socialist who wants to take better care of the jobless and the poor, is heading to a presidential runoff election against tough-on-immigration Nicolas Sarkozy in a vote that could alter Europe's political and economic landscape....