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The European Union's top justice official proposed tougher anti-terror measures Tuesday, from criminalizing recruitment of people for attacks to collecting data from airline passengers flying into the 27-nation bloc.
The United Nations teamed with technology giants Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. to launch a new Web site Thursday that will provide data and a bird's eye view of global efforts to fight poverty and meet U.N. development goals by 2015.
Clashes broke out Saturday between rebels and a pro-government militia in eastern Congo, forcing people to flee their homes, a U.N. official said.
In an Oct. 10 story about humanitarian workers evacuating the besieged Darfur town of Muhajeria, The Associated Press erroneously said Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, was the sole aid group present in the town when it was evacuated. However, another aid group also had a few staff in the town, and the story should have said that MSF was the sole medical aid group there.
A powerful rebel leader in eastern Congo called for a cease-fire Thursday as the army said the death toll from five days of clashes had risen to 122.
The only international aid group in a Darfur town where rebels reported that dozens of people were killed in a government attack said Wednesday it has pulled out for security reasons.
In a widening offensive, Sudanese forces on Monday attacked a southern Darfur town controlled by the only rebel group that has signed a peace deal with the government.
World leaders repeatedly warned the U.N. General Assembly that rich countries' failures to fulfill their pledges of aid are keeping poor nations from meeting U.N. goals of reducing poverty and achieving environmental stability.
The United Nations and the World Bank joined forces Monday to try to recover billions of dollars stolen from the coffers of developing countries every year by corrupt leaders and officials.
The door is closing rapidly on President Bush's opportunity to shape domestic policy.
Fighting over a strategic town in southern Darfur has killed many rebels and government forces over the past week, and the Sudanese air force has bombed several villages, rebels and international observers said Thursday.
Three months into Baghdad's security crackdown, sectarian violence is back on the rise — this time, in a mixed neighborhood that had previously been relatively calm while Sunni-Shiite strife tore apart other parts of the Iraqi capital.
President Joseph Kabila demanded Monday that a failed presidential candidate and former warlord face justice in Congo's courts following two days of deadly clashes in the capital.
Not long ago it would have been unthinkable: a Sunni sheik allying himself publicly with American forces in a xenophobic city at the epicenter of Iraq's Sunni insurgency.
Congo's chief prosecutor issued an arrest warrant Friday for a former warlord and senator who took refuge inside a foreign embassy while his personal army and government troops fought in the capital.
The death toll from four days of fierce fighting between local and foreign militants in a remote Pakistani border region has risen to about 135, three security officials said Thursday.
Wouter Van Bellingen has the name, the lingo, the clothes and the upbringing of your typical Flemish alderman.
Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot.
Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the U.N. food agency said.
After a final burst of violence, a tenuous cease-fire began to take hold in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday after five days of intense fighting between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions left 34 people dead.
Methamphetamine use is increasing along the East Coast after years of largely being confined to rural areas west of the Mississippi River, a government report shows.
President Bush called 10 members of the armed forces from California to Iraq Thursday to wish them a Happy Thanksgiving and thank them for their service.
Farzaan Siddaqui beat up the last health workers who visited his home to vaccinate his children for polio. Like many Muslims in India, he thought the program was an infidel plot to make his community infertile.
Obese mice on a high-fat diet got the benefits of being thin — living healthier, longer lives — without the pain of dieting when they consumed huge doses of red wine extract, according to a landmark new study.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Hezbollah has "hoisted the banner of victory" over Israel and toppled U.S.-led plans for the Middle East.
New research reports posted on the American Cancer Society's Web site late Tuesday suggest that a Florida man with no medical training may have invented a machine that could lead to a cure for cancer.
War has claimed the lives of 2 million children in the past decade.
Interesting brief article about fighting in Iraq between Turks & Kurds. Fighting between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish rebels has left several dozen combatants dead, in clashes that look likely to lead to cross-border retaliation into Iraq.
The London homed Cage Rage Championships have finished the line-up for their Dec, 1st Cage Rage 24: Feel the Pain event at Wembley Arena.
Believe it or not Wollongong is a beautiful city. It is sandwiched between the sea and an escarpment covered by rainforest. It is a university city with a vibrant multicultural population, and yet it is starting to eat itself from the inside. Violence is becoming commonplace.
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I fairly recently created an article about YouTube and how youths will often post videos of themselves fighting and beating up other kids at school and outside, along with those commenting on them and about how badly a kid gets beaten up and what they would have liked to do to th …
After a few months of speculation on who "Minotoro" was going to sign with, he finally took the deal from Canada's Hardcore Championship Fighting. The 205lb fighter signed a three-fight deal that will have him in his first fight in late Nov., or early Dec. in Vancouver.
An autopsy was planned Tuesday to determine what killed a Snellville man who died after being head-butted during a fight with a man with no arms. No charges have been filed against the armless man.
I presume you've reached this article because you were intrigued by the meaning of the title. This refers to a new system that YouTube have recently rolled out, a Digg-style (because everything with voting in it is ripped off from Digg) thumbs up/down system for comments.
There just seems to be so much more stress with the second pregnancy over the first one ....never mind the needs of the current little ankle bitter scurrying around and yelling at the top of his lungs.
Charlie Weis refuses to announce the starting quarterback for Notre Dame.
Given the state's history of blood sport, Michael Vick may have been born in the wrong century.
Friday UFC president Dana White announced that he has signed ex-Pride fighting champion Wanderlei Silva to a contract.
Isn't it just amazing how a regular conversation on a happy day can turn into a vile, nasty argument? One minute you're happy and in love, the next you're screaming at the top of your lungs, and can't think of enough hurtful things to throw at your partner! AAAhhhhh!
Can a man with no knees or elbows actually compete in a MMA event? Kyle Maynard thinks he can.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 delivers an extreme 3D fighting experience, improving upon last year`s game with over 150 playable characters, enhanced fighting techniques, beautifully refined effects and shading techniques, making each character`s effects more realistic, and …
BRITISH teenagers are the worst behaved in Europe, a report released yesterday has said.
Animal experts from a family theme park have discovered an ingenious new way to stop their meerkats fighting, by using a humble cold remedy. The staff at Paultons Park near Romsey, Hampshire, were concerned that their two existing meerkats would fight with three new arrivals.
Now that a grand jury has indicted Michael Vick on federal animal fighting charges--including reports of extreme cruelty to dogs who weren't aggressive enough--it's clearly time for them to get off the dime.
The ball just would not stop rising. I watched in awe as a ball whose last point of contact was Michael Vick's hand rose almost to the very top of the stadium. Whoa…I gasped.
How many times have you been in a situation with someone you know pretty well, maybe your spouse or your best friend, when you just couldn't get through to them? For some reason beyond your understanding they just refuse to listen to what you are saying.
Another show of total domination by the greatest fighter in the world.
Midday Tuesday the California State Athletic Commission announced that Phil Baroni tested positive for two different types of steroids.
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