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AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) -- The Libyan revolution has been tough on rebel fighter and guitarist Massoud Abu Assir's rock band. His bass player was captured by Moammar Gadhafi's forces, and his drummer is off fighting on the front line....

HELSINKI (AP) -- Huge election gains for a Finnish nationalist party opposed to eurozone bailouts posed a challenge Monday to Europe's plans to rescue Portugal and other debt-ridden economies....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's anti-trust commission has hit billionaire Carlos Slim's cellphone subsidiary with a 12 billion peso ($1 billion) fine, parent company America Movil announced....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- When U.S. President Barack Obama inherited Washington's partnership with Pakistan, he kept the money flowing in hopes that stronger ties would help end the Afghan war and give Pakistan more tools to keep its nuclear arsenal from falling into extremists' hands....

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A U.N. panel has called for a thorough investigation into what it calls credible allegations that war crimes were committed by both sides in Sri Lanka as its decades-old civil war drew to a close nearly two years ago....

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Anger at a U.N. court's jailing of a Croatian war hero erupted into fury at the European Union and this country's pro-Western government on Saturday when thousands of enraged veterans of the Balkan conflict tore EU flags and denounced the conservative administration....

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) -- Authorities in Tajikistan said Saturday that government troops have killed an elusive Islamist militant who has been the country's most-wanted insurgent for more than a decade....

BAHIR JONAI, India (AP) -- The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate their houses, possessions and livestock....

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- An Algerian government official says security forces have killed a dozen extremist fighters in northern areas outside the capital and uncovered an arms cache in an area known for attacks against security forces....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- On Christmas Eve in 2009, intelligence officials anxiously monitored dozens of al-Qaida members as they gathered for a meeting in southern Yemen. The U.S. and Yemen had stepped up airstrikes and raids the week before, and al-Qaida was regrouping under one roof to figure out how to retaliate....