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The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has urged Tajikistan to end a local shutdown of Facebook and several Russian-language sites that had published material critical of the nation's veteran leader.

The British Warrior vehicle was traveling over unpaved roads in the Nar-e-Saraj area of the province, where British troops have been training local police officers and security forces for about a year.

Six British soldiers went missing in Afghanistan after their armored vehicle hit a landmine in the dangerous southern Helmand province. They're believed to be dead.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, spoke to supporters in Fargo, N.D., as results began coming in from Super Tuesday primaries. Get a transcript of his rousing speech here, and watch video of his appearance in North Dakota. The cause of liberty is on a roll, let me tell you that, Paul said. Tonight we're going to send a very loud message to the rest of the country.

The FBI is offering an up to $1 million reward for anyone with information that will lead to the safe return of missing retired FBI special agent Bob Levinson, five years after Levinson vanished from Kish Island in Iran.

A member of the elite Special Forces unit the Green Beret, who returned from his fifth deployment to Afghanistan, died on Tuesday after trying to rescue his two daughters from a blazing house fire. His young girls were also killed.

Navy and the Marine Corps personnel will soon be expected to undergo more frequent Breathalyzer tests when they report for duty, following a Monday announcement. The measure is part of a broader program called the 21st Century Sailor and Marine initiative.

As rescue teams frantically dug for survivors the death toll is expected to rise.

Attorney General Eric Holder supplied the legal justification Monday for the decision to kill American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , rebutting criticism that the view of executive power held by President Barack Obama's administration is overly broad.

The progressive icon from Ohio could lose his long-held congressional seat to fellow Ohio incumbent Marcy Kaptur in a Democratic primary that is among Super Tuesday's slate of contests.

Myanmar will begin a managed float of its currency in the fiscal year starting in April and wants to develop an interbank money market to end a black-market currency system that critics say deters investment and abets kleptocracy.

The Supreme Court said the prior verdict was “not complete” and Hekmati, 28, will now be granted a new trial.

Rep. Ron Paul expressed doubt Sunday that Rush Limbaugh was sincere when he apologized for calling a law student a slut over her support for President Barack Obama's new policy on insurance coverage of contraceptives.

The burning of Qurans at a NATO base in Afghanistan helped the Taliban's cause and any repeat of similar negligence by Western forces would be disastrous, the country's army chief of staff told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.

Tajikistan blocked local access to Facebook and two Russian-language sites that published an article critical of its long-serving president on Saturday, representatives of two Internet providers said.

An apparent Taliban attack on members of the Lashkar-e-Islam group leaves at least 20 dead. The incident follows a clash between Lashkar-e-Islam and the military that killed 33 people.

Despite international pressure against the deal, Pakistan said it would honor a 2010 agreement to build a natural gas pipeline that will eventually send 8.7 billion cubic meters of Iranian gas to Pakistan annually.

Two NATO soldiers -- both Americans -- were shot dead Thursday by two Afghans in Kandahar, including a man believed to be a soldier, news reports said. A local official said the two assailants were killed in retaliation by members of the NATO force in Afghanistan.

Two NATO soldiers were shot dead on Thursday by two Afghans, including a man believed to be a soldier, NATO said, an attack that is likely to raise further questions about the future of the country's security forces.

Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was arrested in Cairo on Wednesday. But which Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was it? The al-Qaeda apostate or the militant leader behind the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings?

An independent panel released a report Tuesday indicating that the U.S. Military disposed of some 9/11 victim remains at a landfill in the aftermath of the 2001 terror attack, and New Yorkers are beginning to react to the scandal.