China sentences Bo Xilai to life in prison for corruption
A Chinese court sentenced Bo Xilai to life in prison on Sunday after finding the once powerful Communist Party insider guilty of ...Israeli forces rough up EU diplomat in the West Bank
Israeli soldiers have manhandled a group of European diplomats and seized trucks carrying tents in the West Bank.Syrian war has reached stalemate, deputy PM says
The civil war in Syria has reached a stalemate, according to the country\'s deputy prime minister.Syrian chemical weapons destruction will take one year, Assad says
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has pledged to destroy his stockpile of chemical arms but said it would take one year to do ...Russia says it has proof rebels behind deadly chemical attack in Syria
Russia claims to have received evidence from the Syrian regime implicating rebels in a deadly poison gas attack, as divisions re-emerged ...Iran releases human rights lawyer, other prisoners
Iran has released several political prisoners this week, among them a prominent human rights lawyer, in the first sign that the moderate ...Woman survives 15 days trapped in well in China
A Chinese woman has been found alive after becoming trapped at the bottom of an abandoned well for 15 days, living off ...Austria gunman kills 4 in ongoing standoff
A gunman in Austria killed four people, including three police officers, and was firing sporadically Tuesday at police after barricading himself in ...Brazil president postpones US trip over spying allegations
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has postponed a state visit to the White House on October 23 out of concerns about US surveillance ...Car bomb hits Syria-Turkey border crossing
At least one person was killed Tuesday when a large bomb went off on the Syrian side of the country\'s border with ...
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