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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP):Millions of Muslims across Asia began celebrating the end of the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday with solemn sunrise prayers followed by savoury high-calorie feasts to mark their holiest holiday, despite concerns over...

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP):It was night-time and 10,000 Islamists were...

Charges filed in Benghazi attackWASHINGTON (AP):The Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, two US officials said Tuesday.The officials confirmed that a sealed...

WASHINGTON (AP):Already faltering, President Barack Obama's five-year effort to reboot US-Russian relations finally crashed Wednesday, as the White House abruptly cancelled his planned face-to-face summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin.The effort to...

Some 20 US embassies and consulates were shut on Sunday and several diplomatic posts are set to remain closed until Saturday.

After five years or trials Turkey's former armed forces chief has been jailed for life for plotting to overthrow the government.

ROME:Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi pledged his support for Italy's fragile coalition government to a gathering of thousands of supporters yesterday, but he remained defiant in the face of a supreme court ruling confirming his tax fraud conviction ...

LOS ANGELES (AP): Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a driver plowed into crowds at the Venice Beach boardwalk, a seemingly intentional hit-and-run that killed an Italian woman on her honeymoon and injured 11 others.Nathan Louis...

WASHINGTON:Instead of 'Hail to the Chief', President Barack Obama most likely heard strains of 'Happy Birthday' this weekend.Obama, who turned 52 on yesterday, spent part of the day at the Camp...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called an election for September 7, six weeks after defeating former Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a Labor party vote.

U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said Sunday, citing "an abundance of caution".

The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the weekend closures of nearly two dozen U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world was "the most serious threat" he'd seen.