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Two Swedish journalists who were found guilty in Ethiopia of supporting terrorism were expected to be sentenced Tuesday.

A delegation led by former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung's widow and Hyundai Group's chairwoman arrive in North Korea to express condolences over Kim Jong Il's death.

An icebreaker vessel has reached a leaking Russian boat with 32 crew members aboard off the coast of Antarctica, New Zealand officials said.

An Italian tanker with 17 people on board was hijacked off the coast of Oman, officials said Tuesday.

Iran is prepared to expand military and security cooperation with neighboring Iraq, a top Iranian military official said — a week after U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq.

Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for a string of attacks that killed almost 70 people and wounded more than 200.

Criticism of lax food safety standards at Chinese companies abounded on microblogging cites in China on Tuesday following the latest scare involving dairy products in the country.

The death toll from the tropical storm that lashed the southern Philippines just over a week ago has risen further, the government said Monday, as hundreds of thousands of people continue to receive assistance from evacuation centers in the stricken re…

Representatives of India and Pakistan on Tuesday will hold the second day of two-day talks on conventional and nuclear weapons, Indian officials said.

A suicide car bomber struck a security checkpoint at the main entrance to Iraq's interior ministry compound in central Baghdad Monday, killing at least two people and wounding six others, police said.