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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have selected a new leader after the head of the leftist rebel group was killed in a military operation earlier this month, Colombian state media reported Tuesday.

The man tapped to haul Italy out of its debt crisis is meeting leaders of outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's political party Tuesday as he tries to round up political support.

Turkey threatened to cut off Syria's electricity supply Tuesday and warned the country's leader that Syria's "future cannot be built on the blood of the innocent."

Rio de Janeiro's special forces moved quickly and didn't stop to chat Monday as they peered in windows and knocked on doors in Rocinha, the city's biggest shantytown.

The suspect blamed for the July terrorist attacks in Norway will leave solitary confinement within days, police said Thursday.

There is no reason to believe that Norway mass murder suspect Anders Behring Breivik is insane, District Court Judge Torkjel Nesheim said Monday.

Law enforcement officials seized 300 kilograms of cocaine from a yacht in a coastal town off of Queensland, the Australian Federal Police said.

German and French economic growth rebounded in the third quarter of this year, putting the countries in slightly better shape to withstand a looming eurozone recession.

Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave office "within 90 days" of an agreement with the regional Gulf Cooperation Council, he said in an interview.

A 5.2-magnitude temblor shook the earthquake stricken eastern Turkish region of Van shortly after midnight on Tuesday.