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The release of 198 prisoners was aimed at bolstering the Palestinian president, hours before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived to nudge peace efforts forward.

Voters will decide on Tuesday whether Anwar Ibrahim, the former deputy prime minister, wins back his seat in the Malaysian Parliament after a decade-long absence.

The remote state of Orissa has erupted in tit-for-tat slayings after the murder of a Hindu leader prompted a mob to burn small Christian churches and an orphanage.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement of support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s internal policies and his dogged defense of the country’s nuclear program.

South Korea and China agreed Monday to expand cooperation in political, economic and other fields -- including North Korea's nuclear disarmament -- as the two Asian neighbors push for a new strategic partnership.

President Hamid Karzai dismissed an Afghan Army general and another officer for their part in a commando operation that officials said killed about 90 civilians on Friday.

Members of a high school sports team were among the 68 people killed in a passenger jet crash in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

A small plane carrying American humanitarian workers crashed in a field in eastern Guatemala on Sunday.

The number of those killed in the crash of a Spanair plane last week in Madrid rose to 154 during the weekend, when a patient suffering from severe burns died.

About 40,000 protesters surrounded an Indian factory ready to produce the world’s cheapest car, saying that land for the site had forcibly been taken from local farmers.

President Macapagal Arroyo faces a difficult choice: salvage peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or abandon them and rely on force to combat the rebels.

“There’s no chance of finding anyone alive,”the French interior minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, said while visiting the area.

Mr. Abse was a colorful Welsh politician who took a leading role in liberalizing laws on homosexuality and divorce.

Mr. Cartan was known for meticulous proofs and for inspiring a revival of mathematics in France after World War II.

Significant shows at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe considered the anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth.

Marvel is teaming up with Madhouse, a Japanese animation studio, to create versions of its characters for four series that will premiere in spring 2010 in Japan.

To understand the conflict in Georgia, listen to how people speak in the Caucasus.

What it’s been like reporting a conflict that never seems to end.

Slowly, tattooing is overcoming an ancient stigma in Beijing.

Many doctors are resisting offering their patients a procedure that is now legal.