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The United Nations is reporting that one million Syrians are going hungry and helpless due to the 22-month civil conflict in the country.

BANGKOK (AP):Thai authorities have seized more than $500,000 worth of rhino horn from a passenger's luggage at a Bangkok airport.Thai Customs officer Khanit Isdul said Sunday that officials acting on a tip-off found four rhino horns in the passenger's...

LONDON (AP):A British judge yesterday sentenced a woman he called a "devoted and loving mother" to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son to death after he failed to memorise passages from the Quran.A jury at Cardiff Crown Court in Wales...

HOBART (AP):Officials searched yesterday for bodies among the charred ruins of more than 100 homes and other buildings destroyed by wildfires in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

BEIRUT (AP): President Bashar al- Assad called on Syrians to defend their country against Islamic extremists seeking to destroy the nation, dismissing any prospect of dialogue with the "murderous criminals" he says are behind the uprising, even as he outlined his vision for a peaceful settlement to the civil war.

JOHANNESBURG (AP): South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has recovered from his recent lung infection and a surgical procedure to remove gallstones, according to an announcement yesterday by President Jacob Zuma.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP):Thousands of young men leapt into icy rivers and lakes across eastern Europe yesterday to retrieve crucifixes cast by priests in ceremonies commemorating the baptism of Jesus Christ.By tradition, a wooden cross is cast into the...

HONOLULU (AP): President Barack Obama is hailing a last-minute deal that pulled the country back from the "fiscal cliff," but warned that he "will not compromise" over his insistence that Congress lift the federal debt ceiling.

Reports are that officers entered the home and after a gunfight, the suspect was found dead, along with three people who appeared to have been killed earlier.

The agreement includes a balance of spending cuts and revenue increases to pay for the delay in the automatic spending cuts that would go into effect without a deal by lawmakers.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP):Mexico City lawmakers have approved prison terms for animal cruelty, previously considered a civil offence sanctioned with fines and detentions.The capital's legislative assembly unanimously agreed that people who intentionally...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP):Recalling the shooting of 20 first-graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to put his "full weight" behind a legislative...