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REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP):AN ICELANDIC volcano was flinging ash, smoke and steam miles (kilometres) into the air Sunday, dropping a thick layer of grey soot in an eruption far more forceful - but likely far less impactful - than the one that grounded...

United States President, Barack Obama, has said that he would launch an operation similar to the one which killed Osama Bin Laden if another militant leader was found in Pakistan.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not accepting a call by US President Barack Obama for peace with the Palestinians based on borders drawn up in 1967.

WikiLeaks' Australian founder, Julian Assange, who enraged Washington by publishing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, has been given a peace award for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights".

The trans-Atlantic gap separating the U.S. and French justice systems and moral codes is as wide as the ocean itself — appalling a nation witnessing the unraveling fortunes of a favorite son, jailed.

SAN BENITO (AP):Guatemala declared a 30-day state of emergency for the northern Peten region following the brutal massacre of 27 people at a cattle ranch.

SEOUL, (AP): Hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied yesterday near a red-light district in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brothels, with some unsuccessfully attempting to set themselves on fire....

YANGON (AP):Myanmar is releasing more than 14,600 prisoners under a clemency programme that includes just a few political prisoners, one of them a hip-hop singer.Prison Department Director General Zaw Win said most of the convicts, including 2,166...

SENEGAL, Dakar, (AP):The African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released last Wednesday shows that it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every day, a rate equal to 48 per hour.

GOLAN HEIGHTS, Majdal Shams, (AP): Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters yesterday along three hostile borders, including the frontier with Syria, leaving 16 people dead and dozens more wounded in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations marking a Palestinian day...

ISLAMABAD (AP): Osama bin Laden cut himself off from direct access to the Internet during his final years in Pakistan as he attempted to elude the CIA. But the terror group he founded has been able to seize...