Pakistan plans anti-militant push in rugged region

New military operation across north Waziristan to be launched after Americans' long insistence of threat operating there

• Aug 17, 2012

Air France asks passengers for gas money in Syria

Emergency layover prompts flight crew to check for passenger cash to circumvent sanctions; Alternative eventually found

• Aug 17, 2012

Assange boosts Ecuador leader's anti-U.S. cred

As Rafael Correa fashions himself into a mouthpiece for Latin America's left, asylum row is helping - to no foreseeable end

• Aug 17, 2012

Scores killed in day of terror in Iraq

Insurgents stage gun, bomb attacks across country, killing at least 59 people and showing al Qaeda still a lethal force

• Aug 17, 2012

Wave of insurgent attacks kills 48 across Iraq

The bomb and shooting attacks across Iraq made for the country's deadliest day in more than three weeks

• Aug 17, 2012

China to announce murder trial verdict on Mon.

A Chinese court will deliver a verdict in the murder trial of ousted politician Bo Xilai's wife on Monday

• Aug 16, 2012

Taliban say they have infiltrated Afghan forces

Taliban leader says his fighters are successfully killing a growing number of U.S.-led coalition forces

• Aug 16, 2012

Activists: Syria shells bread line; 10 dead

Women, children lined up outside bakery struck by shrapnel as intense clashes continue in Syria's largest city, opposition claims

• Aug 16, 2012

S. Africa police shoot striking miners; 18 dead

Violence ensues at S. African mines, police bombard crowd of striking workers gathered outside Lonmin platinum mine

• Aug 16, 2012

Special forces among dead in Afghan copter crash

The cause of a Thursday's Black Hawk helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed 7 U.S. troops still unclear

• Aug 16, 2012

U.N. ends Syria mission, backs civilian office

Security Council will back new civilian office in Syria to support U.N. and Arab League efforts to end 18-month conflict

• Aug 16, 2012

U.K.: WikiLeaks' Assange won't be allowed to leave

British foreign secretary announces no safe passage for Australian ex-hacker after Ecuador grants him political asylum

• Aug 16, 2012

Julian Assange granted political asylum in Ecuador

WikiLeaks founder remains holed up in country's London embassy with asylum decision doing little to defuse standoff with Britain

• Aug 16, 2012

New Zealand skydiver survives harrowing fall

Main parachute fails to open, reserve malfunctions; Man seriously injured but stable

• Aug 16, 2012

Bomb threat diverts NYC - Moscow flight

Russia's Aeroflot says threat phoned-in, plane lands safely in Iceland where search is ongoing

• Aug 16, 2012

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