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Dozens of people died as heavy rain caused flooding and mudslides in Brazil this week, officials said Tuesday.

A militant attack on a government vehicle in Yemen's business capital, Aden, Wednesday, killed a political security officer and injured seven others, three senior security officials said.

The two Swedish journalists convicted as terrorists in Ethiopia have opted to seek a pardon rather than appeal the verdict and their 11-year sentences, a Swedish official said Tuesday.

A tropical cyclone barreling toward the northwestern shores of Australia prompted several major ports and oil fields to shut down in anticipation of tidal surges brought on by heavy winds, officials said Wednesday.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met Chinese leaders on Wednesday with discussions expected to focus on cooperation between the world's top two economies to bolster global growth as well as possible sanctions on Iranian oil exports.

Former Iran hostage Barry Rosen says the West should look to regional intermediaries to calm tensions, and knock off the saber-rattling.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti two years ago, sending an already struggling nation into a tailspin. Relief organizations are still on the ground helping the country transition from relief to rebuilding, and you can help.

A nationwide strike in Nigeria enters its second day Tuesday as citizens take to the streets to show anger about the government's decision that has more than doubled fuel prices in the largely impoverished country.

In a rare and defiant speech Tuesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad blamed the unabated violence in his country on “external conspiracies.”

Turkey moved one step closer to prosecuting the senior commanders behind a military coup in 1980 when a Turkish court approved on Tuesday a prosecutor's indictment of retired army general and former president Kenan Evren, semi-official Anatolian A…