China amping up drone research and production
Still far behind the U.S. and Israel in drone technology, China is racing to catch up in a key sector of modern warfare
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Pakistani parents kill daughter for eyeing boy
Couple told BBC in interview from jail they poured acid on their 15-year-old; Mother said it was her "destiny to die this way"
Defying rally ban, Kuwaitis met with tear gas
Riot police launch gas bombs, stun grenades against thousands attending "illegal" demonstration against new election law in Arab world's latest flashpoint
Palestinians join intense fighting in Damascus
Syria's half-million Palestinians struggled to stay on sidelines at first, but started supporting both sides in recent months
U.K. bookie declares Obama victorious
Paddy Power, Europe's biggest book-maker, is already paying out winnings to gamblers who bet on the U.S. incumbent
Ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan silenced by cancer
U.S. and Israeli elections are muting talk over stopping Iran's nuclear program, as a health crisis removes a major Israeli voice from the debate
Russian nationalists protest Putin in Moscow
Thousands protest in Unity Day march, accusing gov't of subsidizing minorities at expense of ethnic Russians
Embattled Iran leader faces another grilling
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad summoned by parliament for 2nd time this year to answer for plummeting Iranian currency
Coptic Christians get a new pope
Bishop Tawadros' name pulled from box in elaborate ceremony to pick ancient Egyptian church's leader
Tibetan self-immolations continue in China
Government-in-exile says man set self alight in monastery town in China's west - latest in a series of such deadly protests
Northern Mali Islamists in peace talks
Mali's beleagured gov't sends envoy to meet with representative from group affiliated with al Qaeda's North Africa branch
Brazil's "pop-star priest" gets mammoth new stage
Father Marcelo Rossi's Mother of God sanctuary will seat 6,000 people and have standing room for 14,000 more, church leaders say
Israel: Syria tanks enter Golan Heights DMZ
Military spokesman says complaint filed with U.N. after Syrian tanks, two armored personnel carriers entered demilitarized zone
Japan nuke safety team took money from utility
Neutrality of experts who accepted funds from nuclear power industry is questioned in wake of Fukushima disaster
Activists: Rebels fight Syrian troops over airbase
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the rebels have launched a dawn offensive to take Taftanaz air base
Israeli election exit polls show race headed toward stalemate
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In Trump's pardon economy, victims lost out on $119M in restitution
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8-month Iran war looms large over Israeli election
Grand jury won't indict Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony
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