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AP - The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege of the restive city of Homs. More...

AP - Security forces fired tear gas and clashed Monday with several thousand protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square in the third straight day of violence that has killed at least 24 people and has turned into the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of Egypt's military. More...

AP - It seems as if violence is everywhere, but it's really on the run. More...

Many Israelis are dismissing the Palestinians' efforts to win international recognition of their independence at the United Nations this month as merely symbolic. But the Palestinians hope the high-profile maneuvering, on a grand global stage, might yield results that have eluded them through...

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...

OAXACA, Mexico – Violence motivated by an electoral dispute between indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Oaxaca has left at least eight people dead. State authorities say the violence occurred near the town of Santiago Choapan, about six hours from the state capital. A mayoral...

YDNEY (AFP) – Australia's binge-drinking culture has been starkly highlighted with 1,600 "boozed-up idiots" arrested by police in a hardline weekend crackdown on alcohol-fuelled violence and crime. The trans-Tasman "Operation Unite", a two-day blitz on public alcohol abuse and related crime...

Edmonton Police confirmed late Thursday that the city's latest homicide might be a case of domestic violence. A middle-aged woman was found by police around 4 p.m. Wednesday after they were called to a residence near 40th Avenue and Millbourne Road West. Since then a 59-year-old man has been...

-- Anti-government demonstrators took to the streets of the capital Sanaa following Friday's midday prayers, ushering in a second week of unrest to the Middle Eastern nation. Protesters gathered around Sanaa University as government security forces blocked some streets and medical teams staged...

-- The top security official in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon was found shot dead and burned inside a truck in the city of Monterrey, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing state officials. The governor's office confirmed the death of Homero Guillermo Salcido Trevino, head of the...

-- Security forces in northern Iraq found a mass grave containing scores of people killed during the height of sectarian violence last decade, police told CNN on Saturday. At least 153 bodies were discovered in Buhriz, just south of Baquba in Diyala province -- a region north and east of...

-- Leaders around the globe joined a chorus of condemnation Wednesday over the eruption of violence in Cairo as embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak struggled to maintain his grip on power. Violence between pro- and anti-government demonstrators spread through the Egyptian capital despite...

-- A United Nations representative has condemned sexual violence in the Ivory Coast as the White House met with leaders urging the nation's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to give up power. "Following reports of rapes in Cote d'Ivoire, I condemn in the strongest possible terms the employment of...

-- Reaction to the deadly shootings in Arizona was part of a commemoration Friday of the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as two of the most prominent African-American members of the Obama administration said King wanted justice against cruelty to mankind. "That senseless act of...

People hold posters reading 'We like kebab!' and 'We like khachapuri!' (Georgian cheese pastry) during a rally in Moscow. Hundreds of Russians hit the streets of Moscow on Sunday, rallying to promote peace and equality in response to a rash of ethnic violence and unrest, state-run media...

U.N. peacekeepers stand guard in front of the Golf Hotel in Abidjan after armed fighters took up positions around it. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the "political stalemate" in the Ivory Coast could lead to fighting, and he repeated his call for the incumbent to leave office after...

Death toll in Karachi violence hits 76 KARACHI, Pakistan, A grenade attack in a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday night killed five people and raised the death toll in three days of violence to 76, officials said. The English-language Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported police said the...

Violence hangs over Mexican polls MEXICO CITY, (UPI) -- Violence and the threat of it hung heavily over Mexico's elections Sunday, observers said. The Los Angeles Times reported some polling stations never opened because many election workers feared for their safety. The newspaper said four...

Child obesity linked to domestic violence BOSTON, (UPI) -- Mothers who reported some form of intimate partner violence were more likely than others to have children who were obese by age 5, U.S. researchers found. Dr. Renee Boynton-Jarrett of the Boston University School of Medicine and...

U.S. troop reduction in Iraq on track WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The U.S military expects to reach its goal of reducing troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of August, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said. "All indications are that we are on track and we will stay on track to be at...