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If Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, the strike would probably take the form of a complex air assault involving scores of planes that would have to penetrate Iranian air defenses and attack up to a couple of dozen targets simultaneously, analysts say.

A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected a second bid by Yale University to throw out all the allegations in a lawsuit filed by a South Korean university that claims it lost tens of millions of dollars after Yale damaged its reputation.

BAGHDAD Iraq's capital is embracing Valentine's Day this year with a huge public display of affection in what its residents say is the nation's most amorous celebration of the holiday ever.

The United States will support a U.N. human rights council resolution asking Sri Lanka to implement recommendations its commission made on the island nation's civil war, an American diplomat said Monday.

The State Department says a U.S. envoy will hold talks with North Korea on its nuclear program in Beijing next week.

Apple iPads have been seized by authorities in parts of China in a legal row over rights to the device's name Apple's iPads have been banned from sale in part of China after a local firm claimed it had rights to the tablet computer's brand name.

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Taliban say their Defense Minister who was in office when the Islamist regime ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s died last year in a Pakistani jail.

An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing's handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules, an overseas activist group said.

Berdymukhamedov, a 54-year-old qualified dentist, is also prime minister, commander of the armed forces and chairman of the only political party in Turkmenistan.

Maldivian police officers huddle outside the Presidents' Office in Male, Maldives, Sunday, Feb.

Pakistan's prime minister is showing no indication of backing down ahead of a face-to-face showdown with the Supreme Court on Monday, even though his stance could cost him his job and land him in prison.

Mohammed Mansoori clears the grave in Kabul of his brother, Qais, who died at age 20 while working as an interpreter for an American contractor.

Pakistan's leading militants have called on fighters not to attack the Pakistani military in their most important sanctuary along the Afghan border.

Japan's Emperor Akihito, left, along with Empress Michiko, heads to the University of Tokyo Hospital, by car, in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, Feb.

Gunmen burst into a family home of a provincial judge in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and his niece in the latest assassination of an Afghan government official, authorities said Sunday.

Voting has begun in Turkmenistan's presidential election in a race designed to cement the incumbent's hold on power in the authoritarian Central Asian nation.

An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing's handling of its vast Tibetan regions, an overseas rights group said Sunday.

China has loaned two rare giant pandas to Canada for a research program. The Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens Saturday signed an agreement with two Canadian zoos in this regard in Chongqing municipality in southwest China.

A Marine based out of Camp Pendleton was awarded the Silver Star on Friday for courageous service during a bloody, six-hour firefight in the war in Afghanistan.

An arts festival in northern Norway is offering a rare glimpse into North Korean culture this weekend, including performances by musicians whose accordion version of A-ha's megahit "Take on Me" has become an online sensation.