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The emir of Kuwait has accepted the resignation of the Cabinet and the prime minister and asked them to stay as a caretaker government until a new government is formed, state-run news agency KUNA said Monday.

A leading figure in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party, the UMP, has dismissed any suggestion that ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was set up when he was arrested on charges of sexual assault in New York in May.
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Foreign ministers from Arab League countries will meet Sunday to discuss whether to slap economic sanctions against the Syrian regime for its part in a bloody crackdown on civilian demonstrators, a senior league official said.

Two sailors from a ship that capsized in the Irish Sea in gale-forced winds were rescued "in reasonable condition" Sunday while five remained missing, the British coast guard said.

Afghanistan's president announced Sunday a second group of areas where security operations would be handed over from NATO to Afghan troops, setting a potentially rapid timetable to put half of the country's population under Afghan control — …

A blast at a hotel in the southern Philippines on Sunday killed three people and wounded 27, an official said.

Egyptians head to the polls Monday to cast their vote in the first election since an improbable revolt toppled Hosni Mubarak, one of the world’s longest-serving rulers.

A moderate Islamist party claimed victory in Morocco's first parliamentary elections since constitutional reforms this summer.

The last of three American college students who were arrested during Egypt's recent protests arrived back in the United States.

Streets in Egypt's capital remained tense Sunday a day ahead of elections.