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Two Nigerian trade unions accused the country's president of using "armed thugs" to attack protesters, and urged demonstrators to continue their nationwide strike against fuel prices on Wednesday and beyond.

Almost 13,000 people were killed in Mexico by suspected drug violence in the first three quarters of 2011, the country's federal attorney general's office said Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty Wednesday to all the charges against him in the 2010 killing of a Peruvian woman.

Mohammed Ayoob: Turkey, with a foot in both worlds, could be instrumental in preventing a catastrophe between the West and Iran.

The missile that brought down the plane carrying the president of Rwanda more than 17 years ago was fired from a camp controlled by his own ethnic group and not by Tutsi rebels, attorneys for the rebels said Wednesday.

On January 11, 2002, the first terrorist suspects seized in Pakistan and Afghanistan arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on board a C-141 transport plane.

In a CNN exclusive, protesters supporting and denouncing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad give very different takes on the situation in the country.

The controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility turns 10 Wednesday. Over the decade, 779 “enemy combatants” in the war on terror have been held there. An ex-prisoner who was released and never prosecuted relives his nightmare.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani fired his defense secretary Wednesday, a move that spiked tensions between the South Asian nation's civilian government and its all-powerful military.

What do you give the person who has everything? Well, a camel saddle, mosquito traps and a hatstand full of baseball caps were among the gifts handed to British royals during their overseas trips last year, an official list released Tuesday shows.