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Yemeni women defiantly burned their traditional veils Wednesday in protest of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.

After months of grinding civil war, the final battle for Libya's liberation unleashed a bloodbath. Human Rights Watch says dozens of apparent reprisal killings occurred on both sides.

At least 10 people died and 35 others were injured Wednesday when a tanker filled with tons of fuel and strapped with a mine exploded near a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan, a government official said.

Hurricane Rina gained strength off the coast of Central America, as the search continued for more than two dozen missing storm evacuees from Nicaragua.

Residents of Thailand's Munag Ake village are being urged to evacuate the area early Tuesday morning, according to Thailand's Flood Relief Operations Center.

The body of Moammar Gadhafi was buried Tuesday along with the bodies of his son and defense minister, a National Transitional Council spokesman told CNN.

Michael Hayden says U.S. took on new responsibility for events in one Arab country while announcing plans to pull its troops out of another

A cease fire announced Tuesday in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa did not appear to be holding, but a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said it nevertheless constituted a "good step" towards ending violence in the country.

Rescuers in eastern Turkey pulled a baby, her mother and her grandmother alive from the rubble Tuesday, two days after a devastating earthquake.

Amnesty International is accusing the Syrian government of torturing wounded protesters at state-run hospitals, saying the country's authorities have effectively turned medical facilities and their staff into "instruments of repression."…