In Cairo, supporters of Ahmed Shafik celebrated after official results confirmed he will face Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in a runoff election next month that will decide Egypt's first freely elected president.
A fire broke out at the presidential campaign headquarters of Ahmed Shafik, Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, after he had been confirmed as one of two candidates for the runoff election.
Kofi Annan, the United Nations special envoy, arrived in Syria and began negotiations, and the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff warned that more atrocities could make military intervention more likely.
Capt. Rachel Odom covers thousands of miles of eastern Afghanistan as the lone physical therapist serving soldiers in a long-deployed infantry division.
A blaze raged through the upscale Villaggio Mall in Doha, which is frequented by foreigners.
Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, began talks with a group appointed by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority to oversee elections in both Gaza and the West Bank.
A patient in Ciudad Juárez demonstrating treatment in which scenes related to a previous traumatic experience are viewed.
Twenty-five patients in violence-racked Ciudad Juárez completed a therapy program similar to the one used by the United States military to treat Iraq war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
One of China’s largest hosts of Twitter-like microblogs decreed new punishments on Monday for users who post comments that its editors deem inappropriate.
The 73-year-old man, Ya Weilin, had joined others in petitioning the government to address the nearly 200 deaths that occurred during the protests.
The self-immolations were the most significant act of protest to take place in heavily patrolled city of Lhasa since the uprising in 2008.
Naoto Kan, the prime minister during last year’s nuclear crisis, testified before a parliamentary inquiry that the country should discard nuclear power.
The report says that Rwandan authorities have been seemingly complicit in recruiting soldiers for a Congolese rebel leader.
A Vatican spokesman tries to beat back suggestions that a cardinal might have been behind the dissemination of documents linked to the pope’s butler.
A right-leaning political party that has largely advocated staying the course under the austerity plan has surged ahead of its leftist competitor in popularity.
Israel insisted that its soldiers acted in self-defense in a deadly raid on a Turkish passenger vessel attempting to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza in May 2010.
Concern over a bailout of Spain’s banking sector caused stocks to decline in Europe while shares in Asia showed moderate gains on Monday.
A man broke into Britain’s inquiry into press ethics and accused Tony Blair, the former prime minister, of being in the pay of JPMorgan Chase.
Many people say the Olympic Peninsula has become an unlikely new frontier in the effort to fight illegal immigration from Latin America.
Because of the financial crisis, small businesses in Spain have been forced by disappearing credit lines to shut down or downsize.
Lebanese Christians want a dam to exploit their natural resources and to help alleviate their chronic shortages of electricity and water, but the only donor stepping forward is Iran.
Although traditional wrestling exists in various forms throughout West Africa, the version in Senegal, known as laamb, has reached unparalleled heights.
And no, they can’t tell jokes about anything they want. Hosni Mubarak, however, is fair game.
Aren’t countries with diverse economies supposed to be good at deposing dictators?
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The chancellor faces the political repercussions of her decision to shut down Germany's remaining 17 nuclear power plants after the nuclear disaster in Japan last year.
The Department of Defense has identified 1,971 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.
