U.S.: Iranian protesters not alone, ‘deserve decent treatment’

The United States will not sit silently by and ignore what happens on the streets of Tehran, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary for Iran at the State Department said Thursday.

Attacks and clashes were reported in Iran’s capital Thursday as thousands of pro- and anti-government demonstrators took to the streets of Tehran to mark the Islamic Revolution’s 31st anniversary.

Air raids in northern Yemen killed six leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen’s Ministry of Defense said Friday.

The longest and most visible lines in Haiti’s capital are not for food, water or gas. Earthquake survivors need cash and are waiting hours outside wire transfer businesses.

Former German Defense Minister and current Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung has resigned over a fatal Afghan airstrike ordered by German forces, the Labor Ministry said Friday.

A strong earthquake strikes Haiti, destroying houses and inflicting what its ambassador to the U.S. called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation. How you can help

Poor families from rural areas of West Africa send their children to a network of Islamic boarding schools in Nigeria where the children are forced to beg and fight to survive.

International officials will arrive in Iran on Saturday to inspect a newly disclosed nuclear facility near the city of Qom, state media reported.

In what may be former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega’s final showdown with the United States, his attorneys have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to block his extradition to France.

The U.N. chief phoned Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with crimes against humanity, for the “sole purpose of an urgent humanitarian matter,” the international body said Monday.

The United States will withdraw another 4,000 troops in Iraq by the end of October, the U.S. military commander in Iraq says in prepared testimony for a congressional hearing.

Tariq Aziz, a top lieutenant of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, remained hospitalized at a U.S. military hospital Sunday after falling ill in prison, the U.S. command in Iraq reported.

Authorities have raided a monastery in southern Germany as part of a probe into allegations that priests sexually abused children there, prosecutors said.

A suicide car bomb attack near the Indian Embassy killed at least 13 people and wounded 60 others on Thursday, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying an Afghan national in a sports-utility vehicle carried out the attack.

Sende Sencil, age 9, is a “restavec,” a Haitian whose parents have sent her to live with another family for whom she does household chores. The United Nations calls it a form of slavery. CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen tells Sende’s story.

Nine people were killed and 957 rescued when a ferry capsized in the Philippines, leaving crews scouring the waters for survivors, officials said.