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The suspected al Qaeda-trained militant accused of shooting dead seven people in France is killed in a fierce gun battle when police raid his apartment.

Renegade Malian soldiers declared Thursday that they have seized power in the nation and dissolved public institutions because of the government's handling of an insurgency in the north.

Justice Department officials plan to meet Thursday with the parents of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in an Orlando suburb last month.

Shelling in the besieged Syrian city of Hama continued early Thursday, a day after the U.N. Security Council called for the nation to end the bloodshed.

Turkish government officials and security forces commanders gathered Thursday at a gendarme base to bid farewell to six police officers killed a day earlier in a gunbattle with Kurdish rebels in the restive eastern province of Sirnak.

North Korea has more uranium enrichment facilities than it has admitted to previously, a U.S. scientist charged Thursday.

A suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan killed two children and injured eight people on Thursday, a government official said.

A footballer in India has collapsed and died during a match after apparently suffering a cardiac arrest.

Myanmar has invited the United States and the European Union to send representatives to observe elections in April, according to officials in the region.

Renegade Malian soldiers declared Thursday they have seized power in the nation amid fury over the government's handling of a growing insurgency in the north.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls on Afghans to rise up against Western troops -- especially American forces -- in their country and back the Taliban, according to a recent audio message posted on jihadist web forums Wednesday.

Thousands of protesters marched along Jakarta's main thoroughfare to the presidential palace Wednesday, opposing government plans to increase subsidized fuel prices by 33%.

Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed.

It was an exciting day for Laura Dominguez and her 11-year-old daughter Paulina.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to accept the six-point U.N.-Arab League plan offered by envoy Kofi Annan as a way to halt the violence in Syria.