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AFP - Francesco Molinari held off a relentless Lee Westwood on Saturday to maintain a one-stroke lead over the new world number one to set up an enticing final-round battle…

Reuters - Ivory Coast finally holds a long-delayed presidential election on Sunday that is meant to reunite a nation split in two by war and re-launch West Africa’s former star…

AP - Iran confirmed Tuesday that it arrested two German nationals as they approached the home of a woman whose sentence of death-by-stoning on an adultery conviction has drawn international…

AP - A dismissed policeman armed with an automatic rifle seized a bus in the Philippine capital Monday with 26 passengers aboard, most of them South Korean tourists, in a…

AP - Fighter jets buzzed the skies and submarines cruised underwater Sunday as a flotilla of U.S. and South Korean warships led by a nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier began exercises that…

AFP - Poles vote Sunday in an election forced by the air-crash death of conservative president Lech Kaczynski, in what looks to be a tight race between his bereaved twin…

AP - Guinea on Sunday held its first free election since independence more than half a century ago, a vote many hope will finally end decades of harsh military rule…

AP - The people of violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday on a new constitution just weeks after deadly ethnic purges — a vote that the interim government hopes will legitimize the…

AP - Zimbabwean police say they have contacted Pakistan’s security agencies for information on two men arrested in the southern African nation and who are suspected of links to November…

AFP - Poles vote Sunday in an election forced by the air-crash death of conservative president Lech Kaczynski, with his identical twin bidding to replace him but trailing the ruling…