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The Turkish government is considering economic sanctions against neighbor Syria after the Syrian government announced in September that it would suspend imports of high-tariff goods.

The Nobel Prize in medicine will be announced Monday, kicking off a week that will also honor achievements in physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.

The death toll from twin typhoons that pounded the Philippines has reached 59, authorities said.

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A slate of Cabinet ministers for Libya's emerging government was finalized Sunday, two spokesmen for the National Transitional Council said.

Two policemen were killed by a suicide car bomber in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the Dagestani Interior Ministry said on its website Monday.

American Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are appealing their convictions in the killing of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Here is a guide to the appeal process.

The trial of five Emirati activists charged with publicly insulting the UAE president and other top officials resumed Sunday without the defendants, but with the courtroom open to media and representatives from human rights groups for the first time in…

Afghan officials repeated accusations Sunday that the assassination of the country's peace council chairman began with a plot in Pakistan and was carried out by a citizen of the neighboring nation.

Kenyan officials sent mediators into Somalia Sunday after captors took a kidnapped French woman there, a Kenyan official said. He said Kenya was weighing whether to enter Somalia and attack.