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Germany's Pirate Party won four seats in the Saarland state parliament on Monday. The new party took an impressive 7.4 percent despite only having three months to prepare for the snap elections.

Much of the Algerian public remains burdened by poverty, high unemployment, poor public services and entrenched government corruption.

Libya is also seeking his extradition.

The current, unprecedented level of global youth unemployment has raised the risk of creating a lost generation, Nemat Shafik, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, wrote in a blog post Thursday.

In many parts of conservative Muslim Morocco, it is unacceptable for a bride not to be a virgin.

The Rida mosque had been threatened by Salafists before.

The Gunners are stepping up their efforts to reinvigorate their roster next season.

Saudi Crown Prince Nayef, a pivotal figure who supervises the daily affairs of the kingdom, is undergoing routine tests at the renowned Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Saudi television and hospital sources said on Friday.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council met on Wednesday to draft a new resolution in hopes of ending nearly a year of violence in Syria.

The West and the Middle East have long had a strained political relationship. But when it comes to architecture, a more fruitful partnership has emerged.

Chief Rabbinate of Israel has ordered Kashrut supervisors to remove the popular American drink Dr. Pepper from stores, because the production of the drink is not being reviewed for compatibility with Jewish dietary laws, an Israeli blogger has found. A group of anti-war activists in Utah have put up a billboard with the words Bomb Iran supposedly to create awareness among the citizens against a potential war with Iran, involving Israel. The Women's International Zionist Organization, ...

TORONTO, Feb. 23 -- Muslim countries are overthrowing fundamentalist rulers and the United States could have a Mormon presidential candidate as religion keeps a firm, inevitable foot in politics.

The Arab League chief said on Monday that Russia and China had lost diplomatic credit in the Arab world by vetoing a U.N. resolution on Syria and may have sent a message to Damascus that it had a free hand to crack down on protests.

Researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed the Shieldcroc, that is 95-million years old.

Western and Arab states voiced outrage Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power, and Washington vowed harsher sanctions against Damascus.

The high-level diplomatic setback came after world leaders and Syrian opposition activists accused Assad's forces of a massacre in a sustained shelling of Homs, the bloodiest episode in 11 months of upheaval in the pivotal Arab country.

Russia and China vetoed on Saturday an Arab- and Western-backed resolution at the U.N. Security Council calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down over his bloody crackdown on a popular uprising.

China and Russia have vetoed a resolution by the U.N. Security Council calling for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad amid worsening violence in that country. The resolution backed a similar resolution proposed earlier by the Arab League.

Russia sought to delay a U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, warning on Saturday of a so-called scandal should the current draft be put to council members, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

Russia shot down suggestions from some U.N. Security Council members of an imminent deal on a draft resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval, warning it would veto the current text if it were put to a vote on Friday.

ACTA protests are spreading across the globe, as outrage grows over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement treaty in the wake of the SOPA bill being shelved by the U.S. Congress. Find all the details about protest events in this article.