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President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is crumbling as the past few days bring more and more lack of support for its bloody eight-month crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

A Portuguese appeals court has ruled against extraditing fugitive American hijacking suspect George Wright to the United States, his attorney said Thursday.

A Portuguese appeals court has ruled against extraditing fugitive American hijacking suspect George Wright to the United States, his attorney said Thursday.

Japanese authorities have halted the shipment of rice from some farms northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after finding higher-than-allowed levels of radioactive cesium, local authorities said Thursday.

Kuwait's ruler instructed the country's security forces to maintain order Thursday, a day after protesters forced their way inside the country's Parliament building, the state-run Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported.

Italy's new prime minister presented his proposal for leading the country out of financial crisis Thursday.

Iran "has a case to answer" about its nuclear program following a critical report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, the agency's director said Thursday.

Army defectors in northwestern Syria attacked a pro-government youth group office and clashed with Syrian security personnel Thursday, an activist group said.

For the last 15 years, Victoria Vigo has been trying to find the truth about her infertility. After her third child was born dead, the 49-year-old leadership skills instructor who lives in Lima, the Peruvian capital, was never able to conceive again.
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One of four former Khmer Rouge leaders charged with crimes against humanity was ruled unfit to stand trial and could be set free, a spokesman for the special U.N. court in Cambodia said Thursday.