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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fifty one people have died since Saturday after drinking homemade alcohol, most of them in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with more than 300 others suffering from alcohol poisoning, the health ministry said on Monday. The consumption and sale of alcohol is banned in the North...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's envoy to Syria told President Bashar al-Assad's government to stop the violence and help the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross send aid to strife-hit areas, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said...

AP - Iran's state TV has quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying crude oil exports to Europe have not yet been cut, reversing earlier reports that Tehran was halting sales to six countries. More...

AP - A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at a checkpoint leading to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, killing seven people and injuring 32 others, officials said. More...

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BERLIN – German authorities say they haven't yet been able to resolve how sprouts at a farm became contaminated with an aggressive strain of E. coli that has been blamed for 33 deaths. Officials determined Friday that sprouts grown at the farm in Lower Saxony state, in northern Germany, were...

Baghdad (CNN) -- Two people were injured when a bomb struck a government convoy in a west-central neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, Interior Ministry officials told CNN. Abdul Karim Abdullah, deputy human rights minister, escaped injury but two of his bodyguards were hurt in the explosion...

(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that he will temporarily run the country's Oil Ministry, state-run media reported Monday. The move, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, follows Ahmadinejad's decision to relieve three Iranian ministers of their duties as part of...

-- South Korea proposed on Wednesday holding working-level talks with North Korea on February 11, the unification ministry said. The meeting would take place at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, and is aimed at paving the way for higher-level military...

-- About 134,000 South military personnel are involved in efforts to contain the country's worst ever foot-and-mouth outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Thursday. Authorities have killed more than 2 million animals, and fear the epidemic could cost the country $1.4 billion, the ministry...

-- Eleven inmates died in a fight at a Mexican prison Tuesday afternoon, the public safety ministry in Durango state. The dead inmates appeared to have stab wounds, but prosecutors had not determined an official cause of death, a ministry statement said. The fight occurred at the same prison...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/01/pkg.egypt.blast.cnn Government officials in Alexandria, Egypt, increased security around places of worship following an explosion that killed at least 21 people at a church in the region, the governor told state media Saturday. "We are stressing...

An official inspects a car bomb after an explosion outside a church in Alexandria. An explosion outside a church in Egypt killed at least 21 people early Saturday, state media said. Egypt's health ministry said 79 people were wounded in the attack in Alexandria, the country's official Middle...

Four people have been charged with breach of trust and fraud following a police investigation into cleaning contracts at Ontario government buildings in downtown Toronto. Provincial police on Monday charged two workers at the Ministry of Transportation and one at the Ministry of Economic...

The operation was "a very powerful blow" to the FARC, Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera said. The Colombian military on Monday killed at least 13 FARC guerrillas in an airstrike in southern Colombia, officials said. Two other guerrillas were captured, Colombia's defense ministry said. The...

U.N. World Food Programme officials have spoken with Sudanese militants who abducted three Latvian pilots employed by the group, the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday. The officials also spoke with the pilots, who reported they were unhurt and not in need of medical assistance...

Baghdad, Iraq -- The death toll from a car bomb explosion in Basra has increased to at least 12, the Iraqi interior ministry said Tuesday. At least 39 people were wounded when the car bomb exploded Monday in a busy commercial district in the western part of the city, the ministry said. Car...

A car bombing on a crowded street killed at least 10 people and wounded 38 others in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Monday, the interior ministry said. The blast in the predominantly Shiite city targeted pilgrims, the ministry said. The bomb went off at one of the main entrances to the city...

London, England -- The British nuclear submarine that got stuck on the Scottish coast is free, the Defence Ministry told CNN Friday. The HMS Astute, which ran aground off the Isle of Skye, was pulled free as the tide came in Friday afternoon. "She will now be tugged out to deeper water," the...

Kuwait, Iraq in war of words over border KUWAIT CITY, The border between Iraq and Kuwait was determined by a United Nations resolution, making it a settled question, the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry says. The ministry protested a statement Tuesday by an Iraqi diplomat, Gulf News reported. Qais...