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South Sudan will declare itself the world’s newest country on Saturday in a ceremony that caps the region’s long struggle to cede from its northern neighbor.

Six months ago, a slender, soft-spoken 21-year-old Syrian worked in an ice cream factory. The young man’s primary concern then: spending time with his girlfriend.

In a contentious closed-door U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday, Russia criticized France’s decision to airlift weapons to rebel forces in Libya, according to a Western diplomat present during the discussions.

A total of 197 people died Tuesday after the boat carrying them caught fire in the Red Sea off Sudan, the state-run Sudanese Media Center reported.

In a series of potentially serious incidents, aviation officials in Russia say, two commercial airliners have been targeted with laser pointers while landing at a Moscow airport.

U.S. and Mexican search teams scoured the Sea of Cortez for seven Americans still missing after a tourist boat capsized Sunday off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and killed one American tourist.

U.S. and Mexican search teams scoured the Sea of Cortez for seven Americans still missing after a tourist boat capsized Sunday off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and killed one American tourist.

Syria denied a military campaign was under way against Hama, even as human rights groups reported deaths, arrests and clashes on the city’s outskirts.