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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia cannot "cover up" its crime of executing a leading Shiite cleric by severing di...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom's lead Monday and scaled back diplomatic ties to Iran after the ransack...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia executes a prominent opposition Shiite cleric convicted of terrorism charges, s...

Shiite cleric's execution in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia exposes Mideast's dangerous divisionsAfter a year of political pregame, 2016 race gives way to a...

HAVANA (AP) — The United States and Cuba are close to a deal on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights, Cuban and American officials said We...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Human rights advocates and the United States called for an investigation following the Nigerian army's raid on a Shiite sect in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A car bomb explosion that was claimed by the Taliban hit a diplomatic area of central Kabul on Friday, killing a Spanish pol...

BEIRUT (AP) — The latest developments regarding the war in Syria. All times local. 10:20 p.m. French President Francois Hollande says the downing of a...

PARIS (AP) — A ceasefire between Syria's government and opposition could be just weeks away from reality, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tues...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Gunmen in Libya crashed into a convoy of vehicles taking Serbia's ambassador to neighboring Tunisia and then kidnapped two oth...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The evacuation of a squalid Roma camp this week has forced Sweden to come to terms with a troubling new reality: For the first time i...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — The political future of Zanzibar, a semiautonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, was thrown into doubt Wednesday wh...

LONDON (AP) — British police on Monday removed a round-the-clock guard from outside the Ecuadorean Embassy hideout of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia has given foreign diplomats some 1,100 photographs of the dead from last week's hajj crush and stampede, Indian and Paki...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A months-old Syrian government decision to start issuing passports to Syrians who fled their war-ravaged country is quietly contr...

ROME (AP) — Tourists in Rome can admire 400-year-old frescoes in the French embassy after a restoration that has imbued the works with fresh splendor....

LONDON (AP) — It was an unexpected photo opportunity, as Ai Weiwei stood inside London's Royal Academy of Arts Tuesday surrounded by 20 years' worth o...

HAVANA (AP) — The latest on ceremonies to raise the U.S. flag over the embassy in Havana after 54 years of broken diplomatic relations: ___ 1:30 p.m. ...

HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish prosecutors on Thursday dropped cases of lesser sexual misconduct against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but said they still...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Two women opened fire at the heavily protected U.S. Consulate in Istanbul Monday, while assailants exploded a car bomb at a police sta...