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There was no let-up in violence on Friday, when anti-Assad protests again erupted after weekly Muslim prayers.

Boko Haram threatened Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan this week. Speaking in an audio message that was posted online, rebel leader Imam Abubakar Shekau said that he was willing to martyr himself to make Jonathan see.

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich blamed Palestinian leadership for the conflict in Israel, claiming that Palestinians refuse to have a two-state solution while Israel does.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the murder of a senior official of the Syrian Red Crescent.

The leader of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has denied killing civilians during the coordinated bomb attacks in Kano last week.

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Iran is unlikely to move toward building a nuclear weapon this year because it does not yet have the capability to produce enough weapon-grade uranium, a draft report by the Institute for Science and International Security said Wednesday.

Arab League monitors said the withdrawal of colleagues by Gulf Arab states would not hinder their work in Syria while France and Britain Wednesday joined efforts at the United Nations to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

The proposed Enemy Expatriation Act would allow the U.S. government to revoke citizens' nationality if they are accused of supporting anti-American hostilities.

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Maternal and infant mortality rates in Afghanistan are amongst the highest in the world.

40-million new people are expected to enter the global workforce annually.

Tensions in the already heated Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf rose again on Tuesday when Britain said it was considering sending more military assets to the area.

Leon Mugesera was deported from Canada on Tuesday and will soon being trial for war crimes in his native Rwanda.

On the same day that it imposed new sanctions on Iran, the European Union dropped some of its restrictions against the government of Burma.

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Lavrov also said he hopes that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear ambitions can re-start soon.

Accusing the Arab League of attempting to interfere in internal government affairs, Syria rejected a call for President Bashar al-Assad to step down, just as the European Union tightened sanctions on the country.

Highly restrictive abortion laws do not deter women from undergoing the procedure, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which found the rate of unsafe abortions has increased in recent years.

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh gave his farewell address on Monday, stepping down after 33 years in power in response to months of protests.

Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in Kano kill at least 178 people, a doctor claims as hospitals struggle to cope with carnage.