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Pakistan's leading militants have called on fighters to honor an agreement not to attack the Pakistani military in the most important sanctuary for the Taliban and al-Qaida along the Afghan border.

Al-Qaida's chief has called on Muslims from other countries to support rebels in Syria seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, saying they cannot depend on the West for help.

A security official says al-Qaida-linked militants have publicly executed two Yemenis suspected of collaborating with the United States.

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.

Marine Le Pen has purged the old guard from her father's extreme-right National Front party and is reaching out to Jews, maligned under his leadership, in her bid to be the next president of France.

Police in Brazil's third-largest city have ended a nearly two-week strike during which there was a spike in murders.

The Maldives' new president expanded his Cabinet on Sunday to include religious conservatives who have been demanding the introduction of strict Islamic laws in the Indian Ocean nation that relies on high-end tourism.

Senior Hamas figures in the Gaza Strip have harshly criticized the Islamic militant movement's exiled leader for signing a reconciliation deal with his political rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

With Venezuela's first-ever opposition primary set to begin, allies and adversaries of President Hugo Chavez are focused on one burning question: Will the winner have what it takes to defeat a shrewd and charismatic leader who thrives during election campaigns?

Turkey's military says warplanes have bombed suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.