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At least 25 people have been killed in clashes between the army and pro-Coptic Christian protesters, with many crushed by military vehicles, an official says.

Just two days after prominent Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman became the first Arab woman to win the Nobel peace prize, at least 22 women were injured during a march that took place in Taiz on Sunday.

Iran's top cop has offered to quit his job if anyone verifies the results of a recent survey that says 80% of Iranian students drink alcohol and have friendships with the opposite sex, the semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency reported.

At least 31 people were killed during clashes in numerous Syrian cities Sunday, an opposition activist group said Monday. "It's like a war zone," a Homs resident and opposition member told CNN.

An Italian ship was attacked Monday off the Somali coast, the ship's owner said.

The Somali National Army is working to secure the final sector of the capital city of Mogadishu from al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab, with the support of the African Union Mission to Somalia, according to a AMISON force spokesman.

Efforts to recover oil from a ship carrying nearly a half million gallons of heavy fuel that ran aground after striking a reef off New Zealand are being hampered by high winds and strong swells, officials said Monday.

Two American economists won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for their work studying how changes in government policies or economic shocks affect a nation's economy.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with the president of El Salvador during a three-country tour in Latin America to build support for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had harsh words Sunday for nations that appeared unsympathetic to his government.