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BAGHDAD—The U.N. criticized Sweden on Friday for deporting five Iraqi Christians back to their homeland as Iraq’s Christian community comes under severe threat of militant attacks. Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled abroad or to […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s supreme leader on Friday blamed the West for a deadly suicide bombing at a mosque this week, saying the country’s enemies were trying to divide Muslims and halt its nuclear activities. The armed […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Thursday his government shook up an anti-drug police unit after Cuba complained that the force had been uncooperative in preventing Jamaican drug smugglers using speedboats and small planes to […] […]

LONDON—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released on bail Thursday—confined to a supporter’s 600-acre estate but free to get back to work spilling U.S. government secrets on his website as he fights Sweden’s attempt to extradite […] […]

TWO American missile attacks killed five people today in a region in northwest Pakistan that has seen few such strikes in the past. The statement from Pakistan officials foreshadowed an apparent expansion of the CIA-led […] […]

BRITAIN will end the “shameful” practice of holding the children of failed asylum-seekers in detention centres while they await deportation. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says the family wing at Yarl’s Wood removal centre outside […] […]

JULIAN Assange said today his nine days in solitary confinement in a British jail had made him angrier than ever and steeled his resolve to continue the WikiLeaks project. “It has not altered my position, […] […]

NEW YORK—A transportation police officer has been cleared of all criminal charges after being accused of aiding a bias-fueled beating of a Muslim religious leader in a subway station. Manhattan prosecutors dropped their case against […] […]

HAVANA—Cuban-American exiles in Florida may be eagerly awaiting the death of Fidel Castro, but U.S. diplomats in Havana don’t expect the revolutionary icon’s passing to generate any immediate unrest on the communist-run island, or even […] […]

DUBLIN—The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases. Thursday’s judgment will put Ireland under pressure […] […]