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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Police in the southern Russian region of Dagestan say a female suicide bomber has injured at least 11 police officers and civilians.Dagestan's police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said the bomber blew herself up Saturda ...more

SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's King Abdullah II says extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians."Good faith talks must get going," he said in Saturday remarks at the opening of a two-d ...more

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Russian police: Female suicide bomber injures at least 11 in Caucasus region of Dagestan. ...more

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with the Rohingya's Buddhist neighbors after a spate of deadly sectarian violence, an off ...more

TOKYO (AP) — A nuclear research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility.The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday that ...more

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a major Taliban siege on an international compound in the cit ...more

CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.'GRIGRIS' ENTRY IN CANNES BRINGS PRIDE TO AFRICAN NATION OF CHADDirector Mahamat-Saleh Haroun stirred up some emotion and national pr ...more

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12 people.Local official Qasim Desewal said Saturday that f ...more

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Police say that a teacher was among the 17 burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children to school suddenly caught fire.Police earlier said that all 17 who died in the Saturday morning blaze in Gujrat ...more

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Between 35 and 40 percent of workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit returned to work on Saturday to carry out maintenance work after a tunnel collapse that killed 28 people, a union official said. ...more