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- Presidential visit does little to quell religious strife in Myanmar
President Thein Sein, who has been criticized for not doing enough to stop violence between Buddhists and Muslims, is on his first visit to a tense region.
- Berlusconi about-face revives Italian government
Berlusconi: Italian government foe turned friend. Silvio Berulsconi made a U-turn and threw his support behind Italian Premier Enrico Letta in Wednesday's confidence vote.
- Oscar Pistorius: Why he's calling in American forensic experts
Oscar Pistorius's spokeswoman told the Associated Press that the US forensic team is now in South Africa, although she could not give any details of their identities or areas of expertise.
- 'Yankees go home:' Venezuela's Maduro ejects three US diplomats
President Maduro said Venezuelan authorities had for months tailed three US diplomats, who he says aided the far right opposition. He gave them 48 hours to leave Venezuelan soil.
- Tropical storm Wutip hammers Vietnam, Thailand
Tropical storm Wutip damaged at least 1,000 homes as it made landfall in Vietnam. Tropical storm Wutip, downgraded from a typhoon, sank three Chinese ships and 74 people are missing.
- Victoria Azarenka knocked out of China Open by Andrea Petkovic
Victoria Azarenka double-faulted 15 times and was broken five times by Petkovic, who reached the final here in 2011.
- Mali explosion part of new escalation of violence
Mali explosion: Mali Army and separatist rebel forces clashed in Kidal Sunday. Earlier in the day, an explosion went off near a former storage facility for the United Nations World Food Program.
- College students targeted in Nigerian attack
Islamist militants attacked an agricultural college in northeastern Nigeria, part of a campaign to try to create a separate Islamist state.
- Car bomb kills 41 in third Peshawar blast this week
The bomb in northwestern Pakistan exploded Sunday just three hundred yards from the location of a bombing last week.
- Militants kill students in attack on Nigerian college
The attack began shortly after midnight and targeted an agricultural college in northeastern Nigeria. The attack is believed to be linked to Boko Haram, a terrorist group opposed to Western education and seeking to set up an Islamist state.
- Miss Philippines, US-born, crowned Miss World 2013
Miss Philippines is US-born contestant Megan Young, a 23-year-old studying digital film. Miss Philippines moved to the Philippines when she was 10 years old. The Miss World beauty contest was the subject of radical Islamist protests.
- Gambia president: Gays a 'threat to human existence'
Gambia president targets gays in UN speech. Gambia president Yahya Jammeh said "we Muslims and Africans will fight to end this behavior." A 2011 U.N. study found that more than 76 countries criminalize gay and lesbian relations.
- Iran's president returns home to cheers – and jeers
President Hassan Rouhani returned to Iran Saturday mostly to appreciation. But a few protesters pelted Rouhani's limousine with eggs and stones in anger over his direct contact with Obama, the first between Iranian and U.S. presidents for 34 years.
- Pakistan rocked by another major earthquake
A 6.8 - 7.2 magnitude quake hit Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province Saturday in the same area struck by a major earthquake which left 359 people dead earlier this week.
- Amidst Kenya mall attack, generosity and unity
'We all came together as Kenyans and took care of each other,' said one Kenyan. Volunteers fed and helped survivors, police, soldiers, and medical personnel.
- Why security is tight at Miss World finals in Indonesia
The Islamic Defenders Front has threatened to disrupt the Miss World beauty contest. In response to protests, Miss World organizers agreed to cut bikinis from the swimsuit competition.
- U.S. and Russia strike deal on Syria chemical weapons disarmament
Syria will be legally obligated to destroy its chemical weapons under an agreement reached Thursday between the U.S. and Russia. Leaders agree about the importance of adopting the measure promptly.
- Why Charles Taylor's 50-year war crimes sentence was upheld
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor appealed his conviction on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including terrorism, murder, rape and using child soldiers. An international war crimes court upheld the conviction.
- Kenya mall attack investigation enters 'next phase'
A team of international investigators is working to ascertain the identities of the attackers in a four-day-long siege at a shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya over the weekend. It is unclear at this point whether women were among the assailants.
- Biggest earthquake in Pakistan since 2005 kills 327
The Pakistani Army airlifted hundreds of troops to help survivors of yesterday's 7.7 earthquake.