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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive vice president on Thursday asked judges in his terror trial to summon the nation's president as a defense witness....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A private intelligence firm says the Somali militant group al-Shabab has threatened to bring down Kenya's skyscrapers within two weeks, a warning that followed a bomb attack in Nairobi's city center....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A private intelligence firm says the Somali militant group al-Shabab has threatened to bring down Kenya's skyscrapers within two weeks, a warning that followed a bomb attack in Nairobi's city center....

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The rights group Global Witness shows in a new report how an ex-general in the Congolese army, who recently defected and is believed to be behind Congo's newest armed conflict, amassed a war chest by controlling mines in the country's mineral-rich east....

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The rights group Global Witness shows in a new report how an ex-general in the Congolese army, who recently defected and is believed to be behind Congo's newest armed conflict, amassed a war chest by controlling mines in the country's mineral-rich east....

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Villagers have found the flight data recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into an Indonesian volcano three weeks ago and killed 45 people, officials said Thursday. The data it contains could help explain what caused the crash....

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Villagers have found the flight data recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into an Indonesian volcano three weeks ago and killed 45 people, officials said Thursday. The data it contains could help explain what caused the crash....

BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian court has convicted a reserve colonel of spying on behalf of the United States and sentenced him to 12 years in prison, the country's intelligence agency said Thursday....

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian court has convicted a reserve colonel of spying on behalf of the United States and sentenced him to 12 years in prison, the country's intelligence agency said Thursday....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel on Thursday handed over to the Palestinian government the remains of 91 militants, including suicide bombers, in an effort to induce Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to renew long-stalled peace talks....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel on Thursday handed over to the Palestinian government the remains of 91 militants, including suicide bombers, in an effort to induce Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to renew long-stalled peace talks....

MADRID (AP) -- The European Union urged Spain 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) -- The European Union urged Spain 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....

LONDON (AP) -- A British Cabinet minister fighting to safeguard his career amid criticism of his ties to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. on Thursday acknowledged his links to key executives, but denied he showed bias in handling a take-over bid launched by the mogul's media empire....

LONDON (AP) -- A British Cabinet minister fighting to safeguard his career amid criticism of his ties to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. on Thursday acknowledged his links to key executives, but denied he showed bias in handling a take-over bid launched by the mogul's media empire....

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic is asking judges to delay by six months the first witness testimony in his trial on charges of masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war....