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Thai PM dissolves Parliament, calls elections
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has dissolved parliament and called an election, after sustained protests in the capital, Bangkok.Mass protests in Ukrainian capital
Anti-government protesters toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine\'s capital and attacked it with hammers on ...French troops arrive in Central African Republic amid violence
French troops received a triumphant welcome Saturday on the streets of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, as warplanes ...Dozens killed in north Kenya inter-ethnic fighting
Kenyan officials and relief workers say fresh clashes erupted between rival ethnic groups in the country\'s north on Saturday, a ...Syrian Islamists seize Western-backed rebel bases: monitoring group
Syrian rebels from an Islamist alliance formed last month have occupied bases and warehouses belonging to a Western-backed rebel group ...Greece approves more austerity cuts
Greece\'s parliament has approved a budget plan filled with over 3 billion euros of austerity cuts with the hope that ...Yemen army sweeps capital after deadly attack
Yemeni security forces have launched a sweep in the capital to find the perpetrators of a deadly attack on the ...South Africa and world mourn Nelson Mandela
South Africans are mourning the death of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, the country\'s first black president, who died Thursday at ...Biden meets with SKorea leader, pledges Asia focus
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on the lastest stop of an Asian tour ...Dozens killed in Yemen suicide car bomb, assault
A suicide bomber and gunmen attacked the heavily guarded defense ministry compound in the Yemeni capital, Sana\'a, killing 52 people.