In the week since Mitt Romney tapped Paul Ryan to serve as his running mate, the GOP presidential ticket has seen a boost in the polls as well as in fundraising, social media and other metrics, campaign manager Matt Rhoades argues in a new campaign … 2 US troops killed in Afghan police attack, NATO says - Fox News
KABUL, Afghanistan - A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two US service members minutes after they gave him a new weapon as a present. It was the latest in a disturbing string of attacks by … Pussy Riot decry lack of freedoms as trial verdict due - Reuters
* Trial causes international outcry, protests abroad * Judge due to start reading verdict at 1100 GMT * Some Russians seek clemency, others demand tough sentence * Putin seen brooking no dissent in new presidency By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW, … Violence in Muslim region disturbs Russian "ant-hill" sect
KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) – When Russian police came crashing in on a secretive Muslim community in the city of Kazan last month, they were hunting weapons and violent suspects following attacks on leading clerics in the mainly Muslim region of Tatarstan. What they found, in their own words, was an "ant-hill" of tunnels and chambers delving eight stories deep below a modest brick house where dozens of people, including 20 children, had been living peaceably hidden from the world for years, in thrall to a self-styled prophet in his 80s called Faizrakhman Satarov. … Pussy Riot found guilty
A Russian judge has found three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism, in one of the most closely watched cases in recent Russian history. Stalemate: Assange still stuck in embassy
The furor over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's future entered stalemate mode Friday as he remained holed up in Ecuador's London embassy, his home for nearly two months, following an extraordinary display of brinkmanship between Britain and the South American country. British police investigate Moors murderer's letter
LONDON (Reuters) – British detectives are investigating if one of the country's most notorious and sadistic serial killers, "Moors murderer" Ian Brady, has finally revealed the burial place of one of his child victims after nearly 50 years, police said on Friday. Brady with his lover and accomplice Myra Hindley abducted, tortured, sexually abused and then murdered five children before burying the youngsters on a bleak moor in northern England during a two-year reign of terror in the 1960s. … South Africa 309 all out against England
South Africa, after winning the toss, were dismissed for 309 on the second day of the third Test against England at Lord's on Friday. Groups: investigate Rwanda's Kagame for war crimes
Rwandan and Congolese groups opposed to Rwanda President Paul Kagame’s rule have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate him for alleged war crimes for backing rebel groups in eastern Congo.
Russian judge finds 3 members of punk band guilty - Los Angeles Times
Police chief says 34 dead in mine shootings
Police chief Mangwashi Victoria Phiyega says 34 miners died and another 78 were wounded when police opened fire on strikers in one of the worst police shootings in South Africa since apartheid.
UN military observers in Syria begin closing down mission amid collapsed cease-fire bids
BEIRUT – U.N. officials in Syria are starting to close down their military observer mission after failed international attempts to broker a cease-fire.
Mine killings self-defence: S. Africa police chief
South Africa's national police chief said Friday that her forces opened fire in self-defence after coming attack from armed mine workers, leaving 34 people dead and 78 injured. Bangladesh rescues 60 fishermen from pirates
Bangladesh authorities said Friday they had rescued at least 60 fishermen abducted last week by pirates in the Bay of Bengal, as naval and air forces crack down on criminal activity at sea. Zimbabwe protesters demand doctor's reinstatement
Police in Zimbabwe say they have arrested at least 12 people in unrest over the firing of a popular Canadian doctor from a rural hospital in the impoverished northeast.
Iran's Ahmadinejad says no place for Israel in new Middle East
DUBAI (Reuters) – Many thousands of Iranians shouted "Death to America, death to Israel" during state-organized protests on Friday and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told them there was no place for the Jewish state in a future Middle East. Iran, penalized by tough Western sanctions, faces the threat of an Israeli or U.S. military strike on its disputed nuclear facilities. With popular uprisings reshaping the region, the Islamic Republic is also trying to prevent the overthrow of its closest Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. … UN reports another sharp rise in Syrian refugees
The U.N. refugee agency says there has been another sharp rise in Syrian refugees fleeing to Turkey and that the numbers headed to Jordan -- where an estimated 150,000 have already fled -- also are climbing.
Billions of dollars but no peace in Sudan's Darfur
More than four years after an African Union-UN peacekeeping force costing billions of dollars arrived in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur, peace remains elusive and some question the mission's value. Thousands of Vietnam soldiers on standby for typhoon
Vietnam put 20,000 soldiers on standby, ordered boats back to shore and began evacuating local residents as it prepared for Typhoon Kai-Tak to make landfall late Friday, officials and reports said. Iraqi officials say daylong wave of attacks across Iraq claimed more than 90 lives on Thursday
BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials said Friday that a blistering string of attacks across the country the previous day ultimately killed at least 93 people, as the extent of the violence grew clearer and mourners started to bury their dead.
NATO: Afghan local policeman kills 2 US troops in western Afghanistan in latest insider attack
KABUL – A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two U.S. service members minutes after they gave him a new weapon as a present. It was the latest in a disturbing string of attacks by Afghan security forces on the international troops training them.
Gabon opposition TV station attacked after rally
Masked gunmen have attacked a private television station in Gabon that is owned by an opposition leader who recently returned from self-imposed exile.
NATO brands Taliban leader Omar's Eid message 'insane'
The Taliban's reclusive leader Mullah Omar has issued a bellicose Eid statement that was swiftly denounced by the commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan Friday as a message of hate from a deranged man. 
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