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TORONTO (AP) -- Canada has announced it is scrapping the penny....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez has a double-digit lead over the opposition's presidential candidate, but a quarter of Venezuelan voters haven't committed to either candidate, a poll said Thursday....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez has a double-digit lead over the opposition's presidential candidate, but a quarter of Venezuelan voters haven't committed to either candidate, a poll said Thursday....

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said....

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said....

SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian investment banker who chained a fake bomb to a 18-year-old woman's neck in a bizarre extortion attempt will be sentenced June 21....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- From one of the hiding places where he has been holed up since last month's coup, Mali's president penned a resignation letter and handed it to an emissary to deliver to the country's new leaders, while reporters looked on....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The junior officer who overthrew Mali's democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation's constitution made a public U-turn Sunday, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections....

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Protesters smashed bank and storefront windows with hammers and rocks and set fire to a cafe Thursday as economic protests in Spain's second-largest city turned violent....

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Protesters smashed bank and storefront windows with hammers and rocks and set fire to a cafe Thursday as economic protests in Spain's second-largest city turned violent....

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Riot police used pepper spray and tear gas Thursday to chase protesters away from a celebration by retired soldiers marking the 1964 coup that established Brazil's long military dictatorship....

MADRID (AP) -- The European Union urged Spain on Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and the country's soaring borrowing costs....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish workers enraged by austerity-driven labor reforms to prevent the nation from becoming Europe's next bailout victim slowed down the country's economy in a general strike Thursday, closing factories and clashing with police as the new-center right government tried to convince investors the nation isn't headed for a financial meltdown....

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- At least 18 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Police say an Israeli has been stabbed in an attack by an Arab in Jerusalem....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Sunni Muslim rulers largely shunned an Arab League summit hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thursday, illustrating how powerfully the sectarian split and the rivalry with Iran define Middle Eastern politics in the era of the Arab Spring....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Sunni Muslim rulers largely shunned an Arab League summit hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thursday, illustrating how powerfully the sectarian split and the rivalry with Iran define Middle Eastern politics in the era of the Arab Spring....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's top leader says Tehran strongly supports reforms in Syria under President Bashar Assad, but the visiting Turkish prime minister says Assad can't be trusted and must go....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A new poll in Venezuela has found that more than 44 percent of respondents say they would vote for President Hugo Chavez, giving him a 13-point lead ahead of his opposition rival....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- The gunman who claimed responsibility for France's worst terror attacks in years was buried Thursday in a Toulouse cemetery, ending a tortured debate over what to do with the body of a man the president called a "monster."...