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Thousands of Russian anti-government protesters took part in a major rally in Moscow to demand fresh elections and a new president, in defiance of a new law increasing fines for those who hold unsanctioned protests.

Russia on Wednesday defended its sale of arms to Syria and stepped up the rhetoric by accusing the United States of providing weapons to the Syrian rebels.

Smoke drifts into the sky from buildings and houses hit by shelling in Homs, Syria.

More than 20 people have been killed in western Burma's Rakhine State, as international pressure mounts for an end to the sectarian fighting between ethnic-Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims.

Pakistan is downplaying a breakdown in U.S.-Pakistan negotiations on the re-opening of supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned over an increase in the level of violence in Syria and calls for an immediate end to the fighting there, his spokesperson said today.

The United States announced additional exceptions from U.S. financial sanctions on Iran Monday. These exemptions will go to countries that have significantly reduced their imports of Iranian oil.

A strict curfew has been imposed in parts of western Myanmar under the state of emergency following deadly clashes between Buddhists and minority Muslims.

A pregnant woman and four of her relatives were killed Monday when a roadside explosion ripped through the ambulance in which she was being taken to a maternity hospital.