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Syria's defense minister was replaced Monday by the army chief of staff in the midst of a brutal military crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad, the state-run news agency said.

President Hugo Chavez said Monday he's satisfied with results of a series of new medical examinations in Cuba, where he is undergoing treatment for cancer.

JERUSALEM (AP): Israel's foreign minister warned yesterday that the Palestinian Authority plans "unprecedented bloodshed" next month after an expected symbolic United Nations endorsement of Palestinian independence...

BIR AYAD (AP): Rebels launched a new offensive out of their stronghold in Libya's western mountains, battling regime forces on a new front in a bid to break a months-long deadlock and push toward Tripoli, the heartland of Moammar Gadhafi's rule...

LAUREL, Maryland (AP):Hundreds of mourners filled a funeral Mass on Saturday evening for a recent law school graduate from Maryland, who was found slain and dismembered in the small Georgia city where she studied law.Lauren Giddings, a 27-year-old...

Somali government troops opened fire Friday on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a U.N. distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said.

As a prophet of his polygamist sect, Warren Jeffs documented everything he did, keeping track of every marriage he performed, every young woman he wed, and even recording his intimate moments.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney said Thursday he would contact police over his ex-wife's claim that their private communication had been spied upon by British tabloid journalists, condemning the practice as horrendous.

CNN's star interviewer Piers Morgan, a former tabloid newspaper editor, faced calls Thursday to return to Britain to explain what he knows about the country's phone hacking scandal.

The drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5, according to U.S. estimates, the first time such a precise death toll has been released related to the Horn of Africa crisis.

NEW YORK (AP): The number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year has been holding steady at about 50,000, according to a government report released yesterday.For many years, US health officials put the annual number...

NEW DELHI (AP):Police say at least 10 people were beaten to death in southern India by a group of angry villagers who thought they were thieves.Police official Satish told The Associated Press yesterday...