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Reuters - Military-ruled Myanmar freed Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday after her latest period of house arrest expired, giving the country a powerful pro-democracy voice just…

Reuters - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was believed freed on Saturday after authorities withdrew police and barricades from outside her home, allowing her to greet supporters after…

Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev landed on an island north of Japan claimed by Moscow and Tokyo on Monday, sparking a fresh diplomatic row for Japan as it struggles…

AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged on Monday that he receives millions of dollars in cash from Iran, adding that Washington gives him “bags of money” too because his…

AP - Iran’s supreme leader pushed defiant senior clerics to throw their support behind the government Tuesday as he began a 10-day visit to the holy city of Qom, hoping…

AP - Rwandan police arrested the country’s most prominent opposition leader Thursday and accused her of being involved in the formation of a terrorist organization, months after she was barred…

AP - The crew of Chilean miners was pinned nearly a half-mile underground by 700,000 tons of rock after what felt like an earthquake in the shaft above them, and…

AP - The president of Chile has made it official, telling the mother of Florencio Avalos that he’ll be the first of 33 men to be rescued from the collapsed…

AP - Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent lawmakers a proposal to abolish Mexico’s notoriously corrupt and ineffective municipal police forces.

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AP - A former Marxist guerrilla who was imprisoned and brutally tortured during Brazil’s long military dictatorship is the front-running candidate in Sunday’s presidential election, though she may be forced…