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After weeks of speculation, debate and argument, Egyptians went to the polls on Wednesday, choosing among a dozen presidential candidates after decades of authoritarian rule.

A pervasive lawlessness is the biggest change in daily life since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak and the most salient issue in Egypt’s presidential race.

Leaders from the United States and five other countries resumed talks with Iran a day after Tehran signaled willingness to allow potentially intrusive inspections of military facilities.

The ambassador in Baku was summoned home amid a series of protests and rising tensions over matters as varied as weapons purchases and the Eurovision song contest.

After the United States said that North Korea would face more sanctions if it conducted a nuclear test, the North warned that such action would force “countermeasures.”

The intercontinental ballistic missile launched on Wednesday is designed to overpower American missile defenses.

Mark Sullivan said there was not national security breach because agents didn’t have specifics about the president’s Colombia trip.

A 144-page indictment package prepared by a Turkish prosecutor could further estrange Turkey-Israel relations.

A renewed call for European bonds backed by the bloc is growing, but Germany said Tuesday that there was no way it would bend on collective debt.

The move would involve complex legal and financial steps and could set back the economy further, many say.

Britain announced plans Tuesday to finance a new generation of nuclear power plants and renewable energy facilities in a move that illustrates divergent energy policies within the European Union.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s rising young political star, found himself shunned by top leaders in both France and Germany.

A Pakistani doctor who helped the C.I.A. locate Osama Bin Laden using a vaccination campaign as cover was convicted of treason and given 33 years in prison, a Pakistani official said.

The kidnappings near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo were the latest spillover of the conflict next door to create waves in Lebanon.

A huge suicide bombing on Monday stunned the beleaguered government and delivered a stark setback to the American campaign against Al Qaeda’s regional franchise.

Ryan C. Crocker says he will step down for health reasons, after helping to secure a strategic partnership deal.

Students in Gaza will soon have the option of taking Hebrew classes for the first time in nearly two decades.

“The Spear” appears to show President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed, and the African National Congress is trying to force a gallery to remove it.

The results of local runoff elections across Italy are being widely analyzed not as a measure of what Italians want, but what they no longer care for -- and turnout was low: 51.3 percent.

The monkey population of New Delhi has grown large and aggressive, overwhelming the city’s efforts to control it, but Hindu tradition calls for feeding the monkeys twice a week.

Resource companies and manufacturers in Canada faced disruptions after a strike organized by the Teamsters targeted the Canadian Pacific Railway early Wednesday morning.

President Vladimir V. Putin’s choices for his Kremlin administration will be the political heavyweights who have accompanied him for more than a decade.

Cuts to education and health care, which had been considered sacrosanct until now, have prompted nationwide strikes and protests.

The opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, accused of inciting protesters to break through barriers, says the prime minister is using the courts to intimidate him.

At times weeping on the stand, chief justice Renato C. Corona, testified for the first time in his impeachment trial in the Philippine Senate.

A passenger on the US Airways plane en route from Paris to Charlotte, N.C., told the crew that she had a surgically implanted device, the authorities said.

Ten people were found guilty on Tuesday of charges relating to the bombing of a Moscow-Saint Petersburg express train in 2009 that killed 28 people.

The United States government tried to head off a diplomatic row with Russia regarding an investigation into the death of a Russian child in an adoptive American family.

A bomb discovered in a Buenos Aires theater on Tuesday was programmed to explode when the former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, was scheduled to speak there on Wednesday, authorities said.

A Brazilian airline said Tuesday that one of its female pilots ejected a passenger from a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes.

A self-made tycoon sentenced to death for financial fraud has been resentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, meaning her sentence will probably be changed to life after two years of good behavior.

After weeks of debate, speculation and argument, Egyptians went to the polls on Wednesday to cast ballots in the Arab world’s first competitive presidential election.

Egypt’s once-opaque politics are a rich public spectacle, bubbling with talk of candidates, their missteps and their plans.

As urbanization has steadily encroached on their habitat, monkeys have become the scourge of New Delhi. The solution for now: a bigger monkey.

There is one hospital in Kabul that treats anyone, from any side, no questions asked. The horrors of the war blow through its doors every day.

Laborers work at a brick making facility near Jaipur, Rajasthan.

It's not government incompetence holding up crucial reforms, it's the demands of India's "Greeks," rural voters.

The Congress party-ruled government says that it has done well, while opinion polls say otherwise.

The footage of Israeli settlers appearing to open fire on Palestinians drew international attention and raised questions over the effectiveness of Israeli military forces in calming such tense situations.

A Lebanese broadcaster captured harrowing footage of the fighting between rival Sunni factions that support opposite sides of the Syrian conflict, including armed men squeezing off rounds and darting through darkened streets.

The head of the U.N. military observer mission in Syria was forced to defend his team from the ridicule of protesters on Friday.

As viewers tune into the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend, human rights activists want them to think about the dark side of modern, glitzy Azerbaijan.

Lady Gaga still hopes to sing in Jakarta on June 3 - if the police, and various Indonesian religious authorities, allow her to.

PARIS - On the eve of negotiations in Baghdad between Iran and the world powers, the head of the United Nations nuclear monitoring arm signalled an apparent breakthrough over arrangements to inspect Iran's military installations. Returning from a visit to Tehran, Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he expected a deal to be signed soon on an investigation into possible military applications of the Iran's nuclear program. Read more »

Would the issuance of euro bonds help to solve the Continent’s debt crisis, or simply spread the pain to the stronger nations like Germany?

What stands between Moldova and European Union membership? A black-market haven and unofficial statelet on its eastern border.

A retired command sergeant major has come forward to say that she was the victim of gender discrimination by her superiors while she was commandant of the 3rd Infantry Division.

News and developments from the two-day NATO summit with a major focus on the future of Afghanistan.

One reader sees art in the specter of all-seeing eye in the skies over Afghanistan.

It's not government incompetence holding up crucial reforms, it's the demands of India's "Greeks" -- rural voters who want immediate welfare and turn out to elect the substandard politicians who deliver it.

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