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The country's wide-open presidential election, which was in its second day of voting Thursday, is showing how deeply polarized the nation has become.

The U.N. Yugoslav tribunal says the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic will resume about a month later than initially planned.

European Union leaders have wrapped up a summit with few concrete steps to fix the continent's financial crisis, even as the potential for a messy Greek exit from the euro appears to be rising.

The prosecution of a military tribunal demanded the death penalty for Zine El Abidine Ben Ali over his role in the deaths of protesters during the popular uprising that overthrew him a year ago.

Iranian negotiators on Thursday rejected proposals by six world powers to curb Tehran's nuclear program, and demanded answers to their own counteroffer meant to alleviate concerns about the Islamic Republic's ability to build atomic weapons.

Anders Behring Breivik, on trial for killing 77 people in a massacre last July, says he won't appeal the court's verdict if he is deemed sane.

The Ukrainian president is playing down plans by some European leaders to boycott the Euro 2012 championship matches in Ukraine over the imprisonment of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko.

Transport officials in London will be paying compensation to hundreds of people stranded on a subway line that is critical to the upcoming London Olympics.

The government on Thursday squeezed smokers more than ever by announcing a 40 percent hike in tobacco taxes over the next four years

About 400 people have been arrested overnight in the latest protest over higher university tuition.