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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 75, Czech Television announced Sunday.

Israel's Construction and Housing Ministry announced Sunday plans to build 1,000 new homes in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

At least four bodies have been found and 49 people are missing after an offshore drilling rig capsized in the Russian far east Sea of Okhotsk, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Sunday.

A pair of military defectors died in clashes between rebel forces and the Syrian army Saturday, two of at least 14 people slain by government security forces cracking down on anti-regime elements, an activist group said.

Clashes continued in central Cairo early Saturday between several hundred pro-democracy protesters and Egyptian security forces attempting to disperse the crowd.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed confidence in Libya's transition to democracy Saturday, as he paid the first visit to the country by a Pentagon chief.

A year after a Tunisian fruit seller self-immolated, setting in motion the Arab Spring, a democratic political culture is developing in the region, Salman Shaikh writes.

A year after a Tunisian fruit seller self-immolated, setting in motion the Arab Spring, a democratic political culture is developing in the region, Salman Shaikh writes.

A powerful political bloc in Iraq won't participate in the country's parliament, a move that would threaten the country's fragile power-sharing arrangement, its leaders said on Saturday.

Violence between pro-democracy activists and Egyptian security forces escalated in central Cairo Friday as they threw Molotov cocktails, rocks and glass at each other.