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CAIRO (AP): Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists, protesting the military's ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead...

SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (AP): A transportation official in the Dominican Republic says seven people have been killed in a bus accident in the southwestern part of the country.

They say the pilot of the Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul requested a go around one-and-a-half seconds before the crash.

Brazil's foreign minister said Sunday his government is worried by a report that the United States has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations in his country.

JOHANNESBURG (AP):Nelson Mandela is in critical but stable condition, the South African government said late Friday, while a close friend said the anti-apartheid leader was conscious and responsive earlier this week.

Afghans shouting slogans in support of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in Kabul, Afghanistan, last Friday.Snowden gets asylum offersCARACAS, (AP):Edward Snowden has found supporters in Latin America, including three countries who have offered...

The appointment was announced today followed crisis talks led by President Adly Mahmud Mansour.

The development comes one day after leftist South American leaders gathered to denounce the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane over Europe amid reports that the American was aboard.

Francis today cleared Pope John Paul II for sainthood, approving a miracle attributed to his intercession and setting up a dual canonisation along with another pope, John XXIII.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP): A senior judge was sworn in as Egypt's interim president yesterday to replace ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as the military launched a major crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood...

A South African newspaper is reporting that former South African president, Nelson Mandela, is now in "perilous" condition on a life support machine.

President Morales was flying back to Bolivia from Moscow when the plane was forced to stop in Vienna.