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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's crisis deepened Wednesday, as officials in the fabled northern city of Timbuktu confirmed that the Islamic rebel faction that seized control of the town over the weekend has announced it will impose sharia law....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's crisis deepened Wednesday, as officials in the fabled northern city of Timbuktu confirmed that the Islamic rebel faction that seized control of the town over the weekend has announced it will impose sharia law....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's crisis deepened Wednesday, as officials in the fabled northern city of Timbuktu confirmed that the Islamic rebel faction that seized control of the town over the weekend has announced it will impose sharia law....

The Supreme Court in Chile has approved a plan to build a hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, dismissing concerns by environmentalists.

Mexico extradites one of the country's biggest drug lords, Jesus Zambada, to the US to face charges.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would soon nominate an ambassador to Myanmar and ease some travel and financial restrictions on the formerly military-run Southeast Asian nation following historic elections that saw opposition gains in parliament....

One of the last people to leave an offshore platform which started leaking gas in the middle of the North Sea has described the evacuation.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- South Sudan says it shot down a Sudanese fighter jet Wednesday after two military planes dropped bombs around its oil fields, but Sudan denied it had lost such an aircraft....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- South Sudan says it shot down a Sudanese fighter jet Wednesday after two military planes dropped bombs around its oil fields, but Sudan denied it had lost such an aircraft....

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's president threatened Wednesday to topple his rival government to the south, harsh words that could escalate the conflict between the two nations as they intensify clashes over their shared border....

CAIRO (AP) -- The head of Egypt's constitutional assembly said Wednesday the committee will forge ahead with its work despite appeals from liberals, Christians and others who walked out in protest against the Islamist domination of the panel....

CAIRO (AP) -- The head of Egypt's constitutional assembly said Wednesday the committee will forge ahead with its work despite appeals from liberals, Christians and others who walked out in protest against the Islamist domination of the panel....

CAIRO (AP) -- The head of Egypt's constitutional assembly said Wednesday the committee will forge ahead with its work despite appeals from liberals, Christians and others who walked out in protest against the Islamist domination of the panel....

Matt Welch says the surprise isn't that a federal agency was "busted" for its $822,000 Las Vegas junket, it's that taxpayers haven't figured out that the government has been on a spending binge for years

NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Soviet officer dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for his reputation for putting deadly weapons into the hands of violent dictators and regimes is set for sentencing Thursday....

Maybe his attack on the Supreme Court isn't quite as kooky as it seems.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Iraq's fugitive vice president arrived Wednesday in Saudi Arabia hours after he vowed in a television interview that he would return home....

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect opened fire on a crowded market in northeast Nigeria Wednesday, killing at least seven people in an area protected by federal troops, witnesses and the police said....

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect opened fire on a crowded market in northeast Nigeria Wednesday, killing at least seven people in an area protected by federal troops, witnesses and the police said....

New tests are ordered on the body of French academic Richard Descoings, whose naked body was found in a New York hotel.