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BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces overran a mountain enclave near the Mediterranean coast Wednesday, seizing the territory back from rebels as a serious escalation in violence signaled both sides are using more powerful weapons....

GENEVA (AP) -- United Nations officials say that Syria has granted permission for aid workers to enter four hard-hit provinces....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Anxious families and diplomats crowded into a hospital in Lagos on Tuesday and tried to identify corpses from a plane crash that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and an unknown number of others on the ground....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Anxious families and diplomats crowded into a hospital in Lagos on Tuesday and tried to identify corpses from a plane crash that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and an unknown number of others on the ground....

BEIJING (AP) -- China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing....

BEIJING (AP) -- China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan authorities say two separate roadside bomb blasts have killed five people including four policemen in the east of the country....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan authorities say two separate roadside bomb blasts have killed five people including four policemen in the east of the country....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi officials say police have fired in the air and beaten inmates with clubs to put down riots at two prisons in Baghdad....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Car bombs ripped through Shiite and Kurdish targets in Baghdad and other cities Wednesday, killing at least 66 people, wounding more than 200 and feeding growing doubts that Iraq will emerge as a stable democracy after decades of war and dictatorship....

GAUHATI, India (AP) -- Large biting spiders have sparked panic in remote northeast India, but health authorities fear primitive treatment of the bites' painful swelling may be more dangerous than the spiders themselves....

GAUHATI, India (AP) -- Large biting spiders have sparked panic in remote northeast India, but health authorities fear primitive treatment of the bites' painful swelling may be more dangerous than the spiders themselves....

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan has evidence that al-Qaida's second in command was in a house hit by a U.S. drone strike in the country's northwest tribal region, but it is unclear whether he was killed, intelligence officials said Tuesday....

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan has evidence that al-Qaida's second in command was in a house hit by a U.S. drone strike in the country's northwest tribal region, but it is unclear whether he was killed, intelligence officials said Tuesday....

LONDON (AP) -- Crowds cheering "God save the queen!" and pealing church bells greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as she arrived for a service at St. Paul's Cathedral on the last of four days of celebrations of her 60 years on the throne....

LONDON (AP) -- Crowds cheering "God save the queen!" and pealing church bells greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as she arrived for a service at St. Paul's Cathedral on the last of four days of celebrations of her 60 years on the throne....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- When Sandra Tamari arrived at Israel's international airport, she received an unusual request: A security agent pushed a computer screen in front of her, connected to Gmail and told her to "log in."...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- When Sandra Tamari arrived at Israel's international airport, she received an unusual request: A security agent pushed a computer screen in front of her, connected to Gmail and told her to "log in."...

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Singapore has tightened rules on window cleaning following the deaths of nine maids who fell from high-rise apartments this year....

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Singapore has tightened rules on window cleaning following the deaths of nine maids who fell from high-rise apartments this year....