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ATHENS (AP): In a pre-dawn swoop yesterday, Greek riot police ended a nearly five-month protest by sacked workers broadcasting from what was once the headquarters of the defunct ERT state broadcaster...

RIYADH (AP): A Saudi-owned newspaper has reported that authorities have detained more than 16,000 migrant workers in the first 48 hours of a nationwide security sweep targeting foreigners working illegally in the kingdom....

ATHENS (AP): Services across Greece shut down yesterday as unions staged a 24-hour general strike and held peaceful demonstrations to protest further austerity cuts in the cash-strapped country...

LONDON (AP): They work hard, sniffing out crime, with only the occasional pat on the nose in gratitude....

DHAKA, (AP):A Bangladesh court sentenced 152 people to death yesterday for a 2009 mutiny by disgruntled border guards who killed dozens of military commanders during a brutal two-day uprising.The sentences followed a mass trial involving 846 defendants...

The Mayor said he smoked crack "probably a year ago" when he was in a "drunken stupor", an admission that immediately intensified the pressure on him to resign.

MOSCOW (AP): Several thousand Russian nationalists rallied yesterday in Moscow, venting against the migrants they accuse of pushing up the crime rate and taking their jobs.The protest took place on Unity Day, a national holiday established in 2005 to...

DAKAR (AP): French forces who found the bodies of two radio journalists kidnapped and shot to death in northern Mali followed the abductor's tracks...

A boat carrying at least 70 Muslim Rohingya capsized and sank Sunday off the western coast of Myanmar, an aid worker said. Only eight survivors have been found.

The International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), the global network defending and promoting free expression, has launched its third annual campaign to end impunity.

The father of the young man suspected of carrying out a fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport last Friday called his local police chief around the time of the shooting to report that his son had sent a suicidal text message to a sibling and he needed to find him.

Pakistan's interior minister says the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has destroyed the country's nascent peace process. Other leading political figures in Pakistan have also condemned the strike, which they say will push back attempts at peace.