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MOSCOW (AP) -- An attempt by Vladimir Putin's foes to protest his presidential election victory by occupying a Moscow square ended Monday with riot police quickly dispersing and detaining hundreds of demonstrators - a stark reminder of the challenges faced by Russia's opposition....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The economic cost of disasters in 2011 was the highest in history - with a pricetag of at least $380 billion, mainly due to earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a U.N. envoy said Monday....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The economic cost of disasters in 2011 was the highest in history - with a pricetag of at least $380 billion, mainly due to earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a U.N. envoy said Monday....

Setting the stage for America's degraded future, Part 1, 12-13-10

CAIRO (AP) -- A lawmaker from Egypt's most conservative Islamist party resigned from parliament after he was caught lying to cover up a nose job, claiming the injuries to his heavily bandaged face were from a carjacking and beating....

CAIRO (AP) -- A lawmaker from Egypt's most conservative Islamist party resigned from parliament after he was caught lying to cover up a nose job, claiming the injuries to his heavily bandaged face were from a carjacking and beating....

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- A former prime minister of Iceland on Monday rejected charges he failed to adequately protect his country's economy from financial shocks, as he took the stand in the first criminal trial of a world leader to result from the 2008 financial crisis....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Thousands of Yemeni airmen succeeded Monday in pressuring the country's new president to dismiss the commander of the air force, according to a statement by the group....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for a weekend assault on a military base in southern Yemen which officials say left nearly 200 soldiers dead....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Gunshots were fired during an event where the leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez was visiting a traditionally pro-government neighborhood, wounding at least one person and prompting both political camps on Monday to trade blame for the violence....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's main opposition council is crumbling under the weight of infighting and divisions over issues that cut to the heart of the revolution, including accusations that the movement is becoming as autocratic as the regime it wants to drive out....

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Thousands of mourners gathered Monday in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi to bury 155 bodies unearthed from a mass grave of people were killed during last year's civil war....

Why isn't everyone worried about water scarcity? 4-4-11

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's president raised the prospect Thursday of holding presidential elections a year early to avoid a potentially deadly concurrence of a transition of power and a major drawdown of international forces in 2014....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Riot police on Monday quickly and forcefully broke up an opposition attempt to occupy a downtown square in a bid to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election, arresting dozens of participants, including some prominent opposition leaders....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Around a gold-draped hall in Saudi Arabia, Gulf envoys listened to their host denounce the Syrian regime as an enemy of its people and the region. What they really heard were fresh salvos in the Arab Spring's wider war: Saudi leaders and their Gulf partners hoping to deal crippling blows to Iran's footholds in the Middle East....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Assailants waving the battle flag of al-Qaida gunned down 25 policemen Monday in a brazen and well-orchestrated challenge to government control over a strategic town fraught with Iraq war symbolism....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of an ex-U.S. Marine who was sentenced to death on charges of working for the CIA, a news agency reported Monday....

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) -- International experts fought Monday to prevent a fire from reaching a second arms depot and exploding more munitions, a day after a blaze set off blasts so violent they flattened buildings, killing hundreds and trapping countless others under debris....

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The military tribunals held at this isolated U.S. outpost have been lambasted as kangaroo courts, heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution. But most of the convictions so far have led to lighter than expected sentences....