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Yemen minister says weapons came from Iran

SANAA, Yemen: Yemen’s interior minister said Saturday that his country was disappointed to find that a large and diverse cache of weapons seized on a

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Syrian president reshuffles economic Cabinet posts

DAMASCUS, Syria: President Bashar Assad has reshuffled his Cabinet, appointing new ministers to handle an economy ravaged by two years of uprising and civil war, Syria’s state media reported Saturday.

Iran says its English channel dropped by satellite

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s English-language channel Press TV says that it has been dropped by the satellite that had broadcast its signal to North America. The Saturday report says that the

Roadside bomb kills 6 Afghan civilians

KABUL, Afghanistan: A government official says a roadside bomb has struck a car in southern Afghanistan, killing six civilians. The spokesman for the governor of southern Helmand province said Saturday

Syrian rebels preparing for advance on capital

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels brought their fight within a mile of the heart of Damascus on Friday, seizing army checkpoints and cutting a key highway with a row of burning tires

Tunisia buries politician as crisis deepens

TUNIS, Tunisia: The funeral of an assassinated leftist politician drew hundreds of thousands of mourners chanting anti-government slogans to the Tunisian capital Friday — as well as gangs of armed

Ferry with 100 aboard capsizes in Bangladesh

DHAKA: News reports say a ferry packed with more than 100 people has capsized in a river in central Bangladesh. Reports say local villagers rescued 38 people after the ferry

Accused witch burned alive in Papua New Guinea

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea: A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New

Back in the USSR? Key Soviet document is missing

MINSK, Belarus: The powerful Soviet Union may still exist after all — at least on paper. Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich says a historic 1991 document that proclaimed the death

Islamic summit backs Syria dialogue

CAIRO: Leaders at an Islamic summit on Thursday urged a dialogue between the Syrian opposition and regime just as a new initiative for talks proposed by an anti-government leader appeared