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With heavy shelling, Syrian tanks stormed through the restive city of Hama on Wednesday, occupying a central square that had witnessed the largest protests against the rule of President …

Washington - Just as Social Security and Medicare benefits were dangled above the shredder in the debt ceiling debate, another of Washington's sacred cows could end up on the …

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks with the press about the debt ceiling deal on Capitol Hill in Washington, Aug. 1, 2011. The bill passed today 74 …

Twenty Salvadoran soldiers await trial in Spain for crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Salvadoran Civil War. The extradition of war criminals to be …

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Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. Rumsfeld has recently denied knowledge of any waterboarding by US military personnel taking place …

The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning …

The empty streets of Minamisoma, a city near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station that many residents have fled, in the Miyagi Prefecture of Japan, March 18, 2011. (Photo: …

Washington - The House began voting on the landmark compromise to raise the debt ceiling and sharply cut spending, after Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress made their final …

Beirut, Lebanon - Syrian security forces bombed the central city of Hama for a second day on Monday as the government pressed its campaign to crush a four-month-old popular …