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Iran police, demonstrators clash in Tehran protests

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 06:10 PM PDT

Hundreds of merchants join in a rally outside a bazaar in Tehran to decry rising prices and the plunging value of Iran's currency, the rial.

TEHRAN — Iranian police and demonstrators clashed Wednesday during street protests linked to rising prices and the plunging value of the national currency.

Syria car bombings kill more than two dozen in Aleppo

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Some reports say more than 40 were killed. Near the border, Turkey responded with artillery fire, it says, after Syria shelled a Turkish town, killing five.

BEIRUT — A series of car bombs exploded in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo early Wednesday, killing more than two dozen people, injuring many more and causing massive damage.

In Colombia, optimism about FARC peace talks

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 04:58 PM PDT

Analysts say the rebels know they've been largely defeated on the battlefield. But the government faces the challenge of demobilizing some 20,000 fighters and finding a place for them.

TRUJILLO, Colombia — The 11,000 coffee bushes clinging to the steep slopes of his 10-acre farm represent nothing less than a miracle to former rebel Jose Manuel Ospina, and a sign of the stiff challenges facing Colombia's new effort to end half a century of civil war.

Illegal immigrant deportation flights to Mexico City scaled back

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 11:09 PM PDT

The U.S.-Mexico program will operate for only two months this year. The first flight lands in Mexico City with 131 people.

A U.S. pilot program designed to deport illegal immigrants by flying them to Mexico City will operate for only two months this year and involve 20 flights, a significant scaling-back of what was billed as a humanitarian effort to avoid deporting people to violent border regions.