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The political party of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been granted permission to register for future elections in Myanmar, according to Suu Kyi's lawyer.

Amid explosions and gunfire in Syria, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights raised the death toll from the Assad government’s crackdown on activists to close to 5,000 people.

Amid explosions and gunfire in Syria, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights raised the death toll from the Assad government’s crackdown on activists to close to 5,000 people.

Pope Benedict XVI confirmed plans Monday to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter.

Pope Benedict XVI confirmed plans Monday to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter.

Canada officially renounced the expiring Kyoto Protocol on Monday, a day after international negotiators agreed to extend the treaty's limits on carbon emissions blamed for a warming climate.

House and Senate negotiators Monday announced an agreement on a giant $662 billion defense authorization bill, including modifications to its detainee language they hope will address White House concerns about that section and avoid a possible veto by …

President Barack Obama will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday as the United States prepares to withdraw virtually all of its troops from Iraq by December 31.

A 14-year-old Filipino-American boy abducted in July by suspected Islamic militants in the Philippines is free, officials said.

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov — the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team and one of the world's richest men — said Monday that he will run for president of Russia next year.