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A senior security official in Algeria claims that the Al Qaeda terrorist organization is taking advantage of the turmoil in Libya to purchase weapons, according to Reuters.

Here is the latest IAEA update on nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant

In an effort to appease protesters dissatisfied by his slow pace of reforms, the president of Syria Bashar al-Assad has appointed a new governor for the southern town of Deraa, the focal point of protests directed against the Baathist regime.

President Barack Obama has invited House and Senate lawmakers to the White House for Tuesday talks on the federal budget as a Friday deadline to agree to fund the federal government for the next six months, averting shutdown of some services.

Congress is looking ahead to negotiating the 2012 federal budget as a deal nears on the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year budget, with House Republican leadership outlining its goals and a top Democrat saying the Tea Party has had some effect on previous budget talks, but said lawmakers misread their own constituents in seeking larger cuts than were possible in the 2011 fiscal year.

At least ten people have died after a small passenger plane carrying United Nations staff-members crashes at the Kinshasa airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the UN.

After weeks on unyielding unrest in Yemen, one of the most powerful allies of that country’s president, the United States, is now engineering a policy shift in which is not seeks to remove the Yemeni leader from power.

Having departed from Athens, Greece, the Libyan deputy foreign minister has arrived in the Turkish capitol of Ankara, in an effort to reach some kind of resolution to the bloody civil war that is ripping apart of the North African nation.

At least a dozen anti-regime protesters have been killed and thirty wounded in the town of Taiz in Southern Yemen by snipers firing from rooftops, according to a media as cited by Al Jazeera.

At least two of Moammar Gaddafi’s sons are backing a plan to remove their father from power and enable a transition into a constitutional democracy in Libya under the stewardship of his son Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, according to a report in the New York Times.

Libya is reaching out to Greece in order to seek a resolution to the crisis that is dragging on and has already killed thousands of people.

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) said on Monday it has received a Refusal-to-File letter from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for tafamidis, the company’s oral investigational compound for patients with Transthyretin Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP).

Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) said it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Latanoprost Ophthalmic Solution, an eyedrop that lowers pressure in the eye.

According to Amnesty International, as many as 527 people were executed in 2010. A staggering number of 17,833 people are counting their days in the death row in various countries. Following is an overview of the system of death penalty in China, Iran, the United States, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Yemen which top the chart of executions worldwide.

The first major Republican counter to President Barack Obama's February proposal for the 2012 budget was previewed on Sunday, as deficit cutting will exceed the President's proposal by a factor of 4 over the next decade, including a way to slow the growth of federal health spending.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the the Southern coast of Indonesia's Java island on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sunday condemned the burning of a Quran in the United States, days after demonstrators retaliated by killing workers for the United Nations and protests in cities around the country have escalated into violence.

The Libyan rebels were trying over the weekend to put their act together and shore up support and confidence even as Gaddafi's forces solidified their advancements in recent days by unleashing vicious shell attack on Misrata.

The burning of a copy of the holy book Koran in the U.S. continues to trigger protests in the northern Afghan province o Kandahar, with more than 10 people, including seven UN staff, killed here so far over the incident.

Israel has demanded that the United Nations cancel a report that suggested the Jewish state may have committed war crimes during its military offensive in Gaza during 2008-2009.

At least one person has died and dozens have been detained in clashes between protesters and security forces in the Persian Gulf kingdom of Oman

Rebel forces in eastern Libya have received covert military training from US and Egyptian special forces, according to a report in Al Jazeera.

The city of Ajdabiya, located in the northeastern part of Libya, has been a key flashpoint in the 2011 Libyan uprising.

Thousands of protesters in the southern province of Aden in Yemen have clashed with police and army tanks, following a general strike in a demonstration to demand the immediate resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

One day after a dozen people were killed in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan in a protest related to the burning of a Quran by a U.S. pastor, eight more people died in Kandahar in a similar protest.

Three Hamas militants travelling in a car between Khan Younis and the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza were killed when missiles fired by the Israeli Air Force struck them.

The following is the Live summary of Japan nuclear facilities so far from TEPCO:

Most of the countries have withdrawn their travel restriction recommendations against Egypt, which went through a phase of political turmoil and social unrest early this year that ousted Hosni Mubarak.

For the first time since the north-eastern zone of Japan was devastated by earthquake and tsunami, the country's prime minister Naoto Kan visited the area and met the employees working to control the overheated reactors in the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.