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Romania's deputy health minister, whose resignation last week triggered ongoing protests across the nation, was reappointed to his post on Tuesday after meeting with the prime minister.

Egypt's top political parties have agreed to nominate a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as the nation's next parliament speaker, the first time in decades that an Islamist would hold that post.

At least 30,000 children in Mexico are involved in some sort of organized crime, according to a nationwide alliance of civic and social organizations.

Rumors of a military coup in Pakistan have swirled around the current crisis — but analysts say a military takeover is highly unlikely.

Locked in a long-running border dispute, India and China Tuesday agreed to set up a new system aimed at maintaining peace along their treacherous Himalayan boundary.

Yemeni officials on Tuesday downplayed rumors that next month's presidential elections in Yemen would be delayed.

Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong Un, the new leader of North Korea, expects his sibling to fail as the "supreme leader" of the reclusive state, according to the author of a new book.

Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzon, went on trial Tuesday in Madrid accused of abusing his judicial authority in an investigation into financial corruption.

The United Kingdom cannot deport a radical cleric linked to al Qaeda to Jordan because evidence obtained by torture could be used against him there, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.

For the first time, urban dwellers in China now outnumber those living in the country.