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At 26, Saed Qasrawi is among the oldest students at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.
The leading Hamas activist has been enrolled for eight years, but he has been unable to complete his undergraduate engineering program because he keeps getting detained by Palestini...

The leaders of the 27 countries that make up the European Union are to meet in Brussels Wednesday to try and find a way to keep the debt crisis in Europe from spiraling out of control and promote jobs and growth.
On Tuesday the Organization for Economic Cooperation and D...

Determined to end decades of authoritarian rule, millions of Egyptians on Wednesday waited patiently in long lines outside polling stations across the nation to freely chose their first president since last year's ouster of longtime ruler and close U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak.
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Officials say two foreign doctors and three of their Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in the extreme northeast Afghanistan.
Abdul Maroof Rasikh, the spokesman for the governor of Badakhshan province, said on Wednesday that it's unclear who kidnapped...

A private news magazine in Myanmar won a rare court victory Wednesday and will not have to reveal the name of a reporter who wrote about corruption at government ministries.
"The Voice" weekly still faces a defamation suit over the article published in March. T...

Police say they have arrested 10 Israelis over the past few weeks on suspicion they trafficked in organs.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says one of the suspects is a doctor affiliated with a Tel Aviv-area hospital.
He says the alleged organ-trafficking ...

Police say a bus full of Hindu pilgrims plunged into the Ganges River, killing 26 people in northern India.
Rescuers worked more than four hours to pull the bodies from the river late Tuesday in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.
Local Tehri district poli...

Egyptians on Wednesday and Thursday vote to elect their first president since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011 after 29 years of his authoritarian rule. A second round is likely to be held between the two top vote-getters on June 16-17. Here is a look at what's at stake in th...

A branch of city governments China set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday.
The report by New York-based Human Rights Watch c...

The Philippines is accusing China of sending more government and fishing vessels to a contested shoal in the South China Sea despite ongoing talks to resolve the 2-month-old standoff.
Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez says that the number of Chinese vessels at Sca...