Violent clashes between protesters and security forces snowballed in cities throughout eastern Libya, as the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi struggled to crush an uprising aimed at ending his 42-year rule.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the Obama administration would support—but not seek to direct--pro-democracy forces across North Africa and the Persian Gulf.
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Morocco on Sunday to demand sweeping changes to the nation's constitution, defying predictions that this thousand-year-old monarchy would prove an exception to the demands for greater democracy that are sweeping the region.
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Uganda's longtime president won another term, the country's election commission said, but the top opposition leader alleged the election was fraudulent and vowed to reject the results.
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A weekend of violence left scores of people dead in Afghanistan, with 38 slain in an attack on a bank branch by five suicide bombers disguised as Afghan soldiers, and dozens more reportedly killed in coalition bombardment of a remote valley.
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Switzerland has frozen tens of millions of Swiss francs in assets belonging to members of the former Mubarak regime in Egypt.
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A group of camouflage-clad men claiming to be security forces killed three Russian tourists and wounded two others in a Caucasus region afflicted by rising insurgent violence, police said.
Cuba's government has agreed to free seven more political prisoners, the Roman Catholic Church said Saturday. It said six who faced charges of crimes against state security are bound for Spain, but one said he planned to remain on the island.
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Hundreds of the displaced residents of Yeonpyeong Island, which was shelled by North Korea three months ago, returned home to ruins.
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Iran freed two German journalists arrested four months ago in connection with a highly publicized stoning case, and Germany's foreign minister went to Tehran on Saturday to bring the reporters home.
The U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have declared continued Israeli settlements in the West Bank "illegal" after the U.S. failed to persuade the Palestinian Authority to change the text.
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The U.S. Treasury banned Americans from doing business with the New Ansari Exchange, one of the largest financial institutions in Afghanistan.
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Opposition Algerian protesters, numbering in the hundreds to thousands, came together in central Algiers on Saturday but were barred from gathering in May 1st Square, where opposition leaders had asked supporters to turn out for fresh anti-regime protests in the North African country.
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Iran's opposition called for another nationwide demonstration on Sunday, and raised the stakes by openly labeling the struggle as a fight against "a religious dictatorship."
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Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian naval vessels to transit the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, ending several days of confusion over their planned passage, which Israel's foreign minister has labeled a provocation.
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Iran is redoubling its efforts to enrich uranium by upgrading the equipment at its nuclear facilities, after its enrichment program was severely disrupted by the Stuxnet computer virus.
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A dispute over press freedoms between the U.S. and Turkey escalated as Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked the newly arrived U.S. ambassador in Ankara as "amateurish."
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The Russian courthouse aide who went public with allegations that the trial of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was rigged says she fears her family is being pursued by authorities. Police deny that any investigation of her is under way and dismiss her allegations of pressure as a publicity stunt.
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Colombia's government reached a deal with truckers that ends a 16-day strike that pinched coffee exports and raised fears of faster inflation as food and other products sat undelivered.
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Embattled German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said he will stop using his doctoral title until an investigation into allegations he plagiarized parts of his dissertation is completed.
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Italian central-bank governor Mario Draghi appears to be drawing growing support among euro-zone governments to become the next president of the ECB, a senior minister from a euro-zone government said.
Ties between U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies have deteriorated sharply, compromising cooperation on a range of critical counter-terrorism efforts, including U.S. drone strikes targeting top militant leaders.
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Emergency services have stopped the leakage of oil from the grounded Icelandic cargo ship Godafoss off the coast of southern Norway, the Norwegian coastal administration said.
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The disputed regime of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has seized four major international banks that had shut down operations in the West African country.
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The euro zone needs tighter rules on fiscal policy to fortify the single currency and an effective mechanism for crisis management, Italian central-bank governor Mario Draghi says.
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China's central bank said Friday it will raise banks' reserve-requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage point, the second such increase this year, as inflationary pressures remain in the spotlight.
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China's Ministry of Commerce said it seeks to combat 'abnormal' market developments such as serious supply shortages of key goods in Beijing's latest effort to curb inflation.
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In an interview with WSJ's Alan Murray, social media expert Clay Shirky discusses the effect of Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and what it could mean for the Middle East at large.
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Iran's opposition for the second time in a week drew tens of thousands of protesters across the nation on Sunday calling for the end to the Islamic Republic's rule. They were met with what witnesses said was an extraordinary large and violent crackdown by government security forces.
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Bahrain's political crisis continued to cool down as seven opposition groups working to present protesters demands said they would meet to coordinate a response to the government's call for dialogue.
Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, along with the dozens of protests they inspired across the Mideast, are changing the paradigms that guided policy makers and regional leaders for the past two decades.
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King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has for years sought a middle path between order and freedom for Bahrain—a balancing act that may become more difficult as demonstrators ratchet up demands amid his government's crackdown.
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U.S. efforts to stabilize Bahrain, another key Arab ally threatened by popular uprising, is being threatened on several fronts—including apparent splits in Bahrain's royal family and a sense of disengagement by Saudi Arabia, the region's biggest power.
Mubarak had no idea how to counter the power of social media. China, Russia and Iran know better.
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One protester died in a grenade attack in the central square of Taiz, and at least three more protesters died in Aden, while supporters and opponents of the government clashed for an eighth day.
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Longtime Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi faced what appeared to be the greatest resistance to his rule, with human-rights and opposition groups reporting demonstrations in several Libyan cities that met with deadly government response.
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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo's Tahrir square to celebrate Mubarak's ouster a week earlier and to demand further democratization steps by the military that now rules the country.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke fired his most pointed rebuttal yet at foreign critics who say the U.S. central bank's easy money policies are breeding inflation and asset bubbles abroad.
As China tries to rein in spending, the country's financial regulators are making moves to bring off-balance sheet lending back on the books, but will they work?
When India and Bangladesh face each other at the opening match of the ICC Cricket World Cup on Saturday, this could be payback time for India.
Staffing agency Pasona Group Inc. has recruited two new “employees” this week -- two female goats.
The videogame Homefront imagines a future in which North Korean forces have invaded the U.S. The story was penned by John Milius, the screenwriter behind "Apocalypse Now." Is the premise too controversial for a videogame meant to entertain?
Italy says G-20 accord shows private, as well as public debt, should be on the euro zone policy agenda
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In today's pictures, Russia's president and prime minister go skiing, a man works at a mustard farm in India, a woman prepares masks for Rio's Carnival and more.
Germany has a perfectly good, home-grown reason for resisting an expanded system of fiscal transfers between euro-zone states; its own one patently isn't working.
There's one thing about their government that Filipinos can't get enough of: coverage of their bachelor president's love life.
Mervyn King presented the strongest signal yet that the Bank of England is about to start on the road toward normalizing monetary policy.