BEIJING — Ousted Communist Party provincial chieftain Bo Xilai has been suspended from his posts in the Party’s Central Committee and the powerful Politburo and will be formally investigated, the state-run news agency Xinhua announced late Tuesday. Read full article > >

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In a preliminary ruling, Iran’s revolutionary courts convicted American Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, 28, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, the Fars news agency reported Monday. The report said Hekmati was also convicted of trying to accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism. Hekmati allegedly confessed on state television that he had been trained in the U.S. “and planned to imply that Iran was involved in terrorist activities in foreign countries” after returning to the U.S., AP reported. Read full article > >

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A pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in the tense Syrian city of Homs was blown up Thursday, activists and the Syrian news agency said.

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The man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing tells the Reuters news agency the truth will emerge soon.

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Samir Khan, thought to be behind the Al Qaeda magazine Inspire, was among those killed, Yemen’s news agency said.

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Leading Egyptian blogger Asmaa Mahfouz is questioned by prosecutors for allegedly defaming the country’s military, the official Mena news agency reports.

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Bahrain sentences eight Shia pro-democracy activists to life in jail for “plotting to overthrow the government”, the state news agency says.

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Egypt is to open the Rafah border crossing into Gaza permanently to Palestinians from Saturday, the state news agency reports.

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Two dozen people, mainly children, were buried alive when a landslide took down an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, the national news agency said.

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At least one person was killed Wednesday when an earthquake struck southeastern Spain, the state-run EFE news agency said, citing police.

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1 dead after earthquake hits Spain

Bahrain’s king has ordered the state of emergency imposed in March during weeks of protests to be lifted next month, the state news agency says.

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The top security official in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon was found shot dead and burned inside a truck, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing state officials.

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China’s minister of railways Liu Zhijun is placed under investigation “for serious disciplinary violations”, the official Xinhua news agency says.

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China rail minister investigated

The owner of a TV station and his son were arrested for “grand treason” for inciting violence and working for the return of the ousted leader, the state news agency said.

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TV Station Owner in Tunisia Arrested

More animal deaths to ponder: Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of birds in Italy fell dead from the sky on Wednesday, the Italian GeaPress news agency reports. Countless turtle doves were found in the town of Faenza with a mysterious blue stain on…

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