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Samsung Electronics filed preliminary injunction motions in Japan and Australia on Monday to block the sale of Apple's iPhone 4S there.

Samsung Electronics filed preliminary injunction motions in Japan and Australia on Monday to block the sale of Apple's iPhone 4S there.

French Socialists are voting Sunday to choose their candidate to face President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election.

Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo about the continuing unrest in Syria, where security forces set up barricades and carried out raids Sunday, according to opposition sources.

Yemeni security forces opened fired on demonstrators Sunday, killing five people and injuring 54 others, according to a medic on the scene. Elsewhere, a woman was killed by a shot from a government sniper, eyewitnesses said.

Iran's parliament could pick the country's leaders "in the distant future" rather than having Iranians elect a president by popular vote, the Islamic republic's supreme leader suggested Sunday.

Iran's parliament could pick the country's leaders "in the distant future" rather than having Iranians elect a president by popular vote, the Islamic republic's supreme leader suggested Sunday.

Kenyan troops are pursuing suspected Islamic militants from Al-Shabaab across the border into Somalia, Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua told CNN Sunday.

Israel early Sunday released the names of the first group of Palestinian prisoners to be freed in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, setting in motion a process that will allow the public to file objections to specific releases.

Libya's new government said it has control of new areas in Bani Walid as the battle rages on for one of the last cities loyal to the ousted ruler.