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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syrian Red Crescent officials handed over to embassy officials Saturday the bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed in shelling while trapped inside a besieged district in Syria's central city of Homs....

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syrian Red Crescent officials handed over to embassy officials Saturday the bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed in shelling while trapped inside a besieged district in Syria's central city of Homs....

CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court has rejected the second of two lawsuits brought forth by ultraconservative Islamists accusing a Christian tycoon of insulting Islam by posting an online cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil....

After weeks of bloody siege, Syrian troops have moved into one of the most restive neighborhoods of Homs, one of the cities at the center of the country's uprising against President Bashar Assad. The Red Cross is preparing to move in, and opposition activists accuse troops of carrying out a scorched-earth campaign of reprisals in the district, called Baba Amr....

GROSSETO, Italy (AP) -- The first evidence hearing into the Jan. 13 shipwreck of the luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia began Saturday, with so many people trying to cram into an Italian courthouse it had to be moved to a nearby theater....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan and U.S. officials finalized a long-awaited strategic partnership deal Sunday that is meant to set forth guidelines for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan as forces draw down, the two governments said....

PATROL BASE PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan offered a somber apology on Friday in an eastern province where officials say 18 civilians - half of them children - were killed in a coalition airstrike this week....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were leading in the race for parliament, according to early election results Saturday, an indication the Iranian president may face a more hostile house in the remaining 18 months of his second term in office....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were leading in the race for parliament according to early election results Saturday, an indication the Iranian president may face a more hostile house in the remaining 18 months of his second term in office....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he has begun radiation therapy in Cuba as part of cancer treatment one month after undergoing an operation that removed a tumor....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez said Friday he's recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba, and the first photographs of the Venezuelan leader to appear since the operation show him smiling and chatting with Fidel Castro....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez said Friday he's recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba, and the first photographs of the Venezuelan leader to appear since the operation show him smiling and chatting with Fidel Castro....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he was flying to Cuba to begin radiation therapy Sunday, one month after undergoing surgery that removed a cancerous tumor....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Conservative rivals of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are leading in the race for parliament seats according to early election results....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's capital is ready to stomp out its iconic Volkswagen "Bug" taxis. Officials said Friday that the last of the old-style VW Beetles will have their cab licenses expire by the end of the year, marking the end of an adventurous if uncomfortable part of Mexico City life....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's capital is ready to stomp out its iconic Volkswagen "Bug" taxis. Officials said Friday that the last of the old-style VW Beetles will have their cab licenses expire by the end of the year, marking the end of an adventurous if uncomfortable part of Mexico City life....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The younger sister of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday failed to win a parliamentary seat in Ahmadinejad's hometown as the president's conservative rivals won a big portion of the seats in early returns....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's capital is ready to stomp out its iconic Volkwagen "Bug" taxis....

PARIS (AP) -- The buzz at Paris' ready-to-wear shows on Friday wasn't just about the clothes....

PARIS (AP) -- The buzz at Paris' ready-to-wear shows on Friday wasn't just about the clothes....