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International Observers Denounce Guinea Voting Flaws International observers have denounced voting flaws in Guinea's parliamentary election, saying they may undermine the results of a poll meant to seal the transition of the mineral-rich West African nation to democracy. Opposition groups have...

Iran and world powers should focus on confidence-building at next week's talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear program, Iran's parliamentary speaker said on Wednesday. Ali Larijani, a former nuclear negotiator, declined to say whether Iran would bring any concessions to the...

The new $100 bill made its debut today, several years later than originally planned. The bill was originally due to reach banks in 2011. But three years ago the Federal Reserve announced that a problem with the currency's new security...

The United States has cancelled a military exercise with Japan because of the U.S. fiscal standoff, Japan's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, underscoring the extent of the impact of the U.S. congressional deadlock. The cancellation comes days after the United...

Egypt may install security cameras at tourist sites to deter militants from targeting visitors, the Interior Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, just hours after suspected Islamists mounted another fatal attack on police. "There's a security plan in place in tourist...

North Korea said on Tuesday its military would be put on high alert and be ready to launch operations, stepping up tension after weeks of rhetoric against the United States and South Korea, whom it accuses of instigating hostility. Reclusive...

Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Tuesday that relations with the United States would not be affected by a U.S. military raid that captured an al Qaeda suspect in Tripoli, but he said Libyan suspects should be tried...

Two U.S. raids in Africa show the United States is pressuring al Qaeda, officials said on Sunday, though a failure in Somalia and an angry response in Libya also highlighted Washington's woes. In Tripoli, U.S. forces snatched a Libyan wanted...

A bomb that exploded near a polio vaccination team in the volatile northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday killed at least two people, and possibly as many as six, police said, the latest in a string of attacks...

At least 51 people were killed in clashes in Egyptian cities on Sunday, security sources said, after opponents and supporters of deposed president Mohamad Mursi took to the streets in one of the bloodiest days since the army seized...