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Tehran, February 23: Iran has selected 16 locations for the construction of nuclear power plants as part of a plan to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity at multiple sites over the next 15 years. State TV says today that experts at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran have...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has pulled out of a series of international meetings in protest at what it said was the "shameful" failure to stop violence. The SNC said it had decided not to attend a meeting of the Friends of Syria Grouping in Rome next month. It was also turning down invitations for talks in Washington and Moscow. A statement singled out Russia for supporting...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The former head of the United Nations, who helped save Kenya from spiraling deeper into election violence five...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation in a final address to the officials who run the Vatican bureaucracy. Benedict spoke off-the-cuff Saturday at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat coinciding with the Catholic Church's solemn Lenten season. For the past week, Italian Cardinal...

CAIRO — A leading member of Egypt's most powerful Islamist party is criticizing calls by the opposition for a boycott of upcoming parliamentary elections. The deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Essam el-Erian, wrote on his Facebook page Saturday that "running away from a popular test only means that some want to assume executive authority without a democratic mandate." His comments come after opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei called for a boycott of...

Michael McGlinchey hit a hat-trick as the Central Coast Mariners thrashed the Melbourne Victory to finish the day as they started - a point clear of the Western Sydney Warriors at the A-League...

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N'DJAMENA, Chad - The Chadian army says that its troops killed 65 Islamic extremist rebels and destroyed five vehicles in fierce...