Daniel Tovrov

Cyclone Thane slammed into the southern Indian coast on Friday, making landfall in in Tamil Nadu state.

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Chicago-area teenager Alexis Uriel Marron was murdered in Michoacan, Mexico. Are drug cartels responsible?

Hugo Chavez says that the United States could be responsible his cancer and the cancer of other South American leaders. Castro warned him.

Has a Christian-Muslim war in Nigeria begun? Christian leaders are up in arms over Boko Haram while President Goodluck Jonathan frantically tries to cool boiling blood.

Kim Jong-un was officially and publicly declared the Supreme Leader of North Korea on Thursday.

Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Wednesday.

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Nearly 100,000 people have fled their homes in one northern Nigerian state, while violence between Muslims and Christians and the government continues.

Footage of Kim Jong-il's funeral from North Korean state television shows a heartbroken populace mourning for the loss of their leader, their father and their god.

Who will be the five people to shape 2012? It could be anyone on list, or it could be none of them. Such is the state of geopolitics at this important moment in history.

Kim Jong-il's funeral was held in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday.

A number of candidates will show up in March to try to defeat Vladimir Putin, but will the real contender come from an established party or from a non-traditional place?

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of the country's 70 million Muslims, met two days after Boko Haram's Christmas day attacks.

On Tuesday, Arab League peace monitors were sent to the city of Homs, the symbolic center for the ten month-long anti-government protests in Syria.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon received a nice Christmas present when the military arrested Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, a top lieutenant in the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Will it lead to the arrest of Shorty Guzman?

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for a review of the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.

Nigerian police arrested 14 suspected members of Islamic militant group Boko Haram following a fatal shoot-out in the city of Kano over the weekend.

The body of Kim Jong-il was put on display for party officials in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday.

In the aftermath of the Philippines flood,s 1,000 are dead and many more still missing

Russia lost an ally in the death of Kim Jong-il on Saturday and gained an uncertain friend in his son, Kim Jong-un.

Flash floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Washi in the Philippines killed at least 684 people over the weekend.

On Monday, two countries mourned for their deceased leaders; and while North Korea's Kim Jong-il and Czech Republic's Václav Havel were very different men, they are akin in their larger-than-life personae.

Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Dear Leader, died on Saturday.

An update on Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian pastor in Iran who has been sentenced to death.

Amanda Knox is free and home in Seattle, and in Perugia, where she once lived in a jail cell, a judge has published his report on the faulty police work that led to her arrest three years ago.

Cold War militant Carlos the Jackal was sentenced to a second life term by a Paris court on Thursday after being found guilty of a number of bombings in France three decades ago.

The International Criminal Court is suspicious about the manner in which Moammar Gaddafi was killed in October.

Russian customs officials stopped a man carrying radioactive materials from boarding a plane to Iran.