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Russian mayor killed after alleging corruption

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The mayor of a small city near Moscow was shot dead Monday in what appeared to be a contract killing, investigators said,

[World News] Gaddafi son Saif may be tried in Libya: rebel envoy

PARIS (Reuters) - Libya's rebel envoy to Paris said on Monday there was a chance Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could be tried in...

[World News] Pirates attack second tanker in two days near Omani port

DUBAI (Reuters) - A chemical oil tanker foiled a hijack attempt by pirates near the Omani port of Salalah on Sunday, a day after a...

[World News] Analysis: Victory hands new set of problems to Libya rebels

LONDON (Reuters) - Even as they battle Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds in Tripoli, Libyan rebel leaders must race to impose order and prevent bloody score-settling...

[World News] Rebel entrance into Tripoli takes some by surprise

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Exuberant Libyan rebels tore up anything bearing Muammar Gaddafi's image in Tripoli on Monday and their commanders scrambled to focus them on...

[World News] Analysis: Gaddafi collapse will embolden Arab rebels

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The implosion of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year-old rule will put a new spring in the step of the Arab revolutions and...

[World News] Iran starts moving uranium centrifuges to bunker

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has started moving the machines that enrich nuclear fuel from the central city of Natanz to an underground bunker near the...

[World News] Daunted Afghans find refuge in former foe Russia

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Signs in Dari decorate the creaky lifts of a Moscow hotel heaving with Afghan merchants and schoolchildren who have found refuge in...

[World News] Israel and Hamas agree Gaza truce: officials

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, have agreed to a ceasefire after five days of cross-border violence,...

[World News] ICC, Libya rebels discuss handover of Gaddafi's son Saif

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court said on Monday it was in talks with the Libyan rebels about the potential transfer of Saif al-Islam,...