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Reuters - Pope Benedict Thursday said all states must guarantee the freedom for everyone to practice their faith publicly, a clear criticism of some Muslim countries where religious rights are…

AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday condemned violence that erupted during a demonstration against government plans to triple university fees, and police acknowledged they were unprepared for…

Reuters - The United Nations on Saturday rejected calls by south Sudan to send peacekeepers and set up a buffer zone along the country’s tense north-south border ahead of a…

AP - Calls for reform of China’s political system have come repeatedly in the past few months from an unexpected source — the country’s premier — and his surprising remarks…

Time.com - After years of saying it was willing to fight for ownership of the Arctic — and the untapped oil reserves below it — Russia is now calling for…

AP - President Hamid Karzai called Thursday for the quick release of three Afghan journalists — arrests that analysts said were reminiscent of a strategy the U.S. military used in…

AP - Trying to smooth over recently rocky relations before a visit to Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao told American officials on Wednesday that he wants to see healthy and…

AP - Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan’s ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain…

AP - The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the sometimes strained relationship between the US and Afghan President Hamid Karzai is solid.

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AP - Former President Vicente Fox is joining with those urging his successor to legalize drugs in Mexico, saying that could break the economic power of the country’s brutal drug…