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At least six people were killed and 30 others wounded Tuesday morning when two car bombs exploded in eastern Baghdad, police officials said.

China on Tuesday criticized human rights groups' accounts of a violent clash between Tibetan protesters and the Chinese police, accusing them of trying to "distort the truth."

Gun-wielding attackers aboard small vessels opened fire on a group of fishing boats in a restive area of the southern Philippines, killing 15 people in an apparent turf dispute between fishermen, the military authorities said Tuesday.

The head of the Arab League's monitoring mission in Syria is expected to speak Monday about the league's plan for the violence-wracked country.

Many in the West would like to see Iran punished for its nuclear ambitions. Tehran's residents would like those people to take a glimpse into their lives.

Many in the West would like to see Iran punished for its nuclear ambitions. Tehran's residents would like those people to take a glimpse into their lives.

Egypt's parliament convened Monday for the first time since former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster last year.

The French Senate is expected to vote Monday on controversial legislation that would criminalize any public denial of what the bill calls the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey last century.

Four Kenyan officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, will stand trial on human rights violations that are alleged to have occurred after the 2007 election, the International Criminal Court ruled Monday.

The man in charge of search-and-rescue on the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia is due to talk about the operation Monday, as a decision looms about when to call off the search for victims and start offloading thousands of tons of fuel from the ves…