ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar -- Some 2,000 opposition supporters protested in Madagascar's capital Saturday as further political turmoil threatened to escalate a crisis that has already led to dozens of deaths.
BUCHAREST, Romania -- A Romanian passenger plane made an emergency landing on its belly Saturday in the west of the country after a problem with its landing gear, but nobody was injured, airport officials said.
HUA HIN, Thailand -- Southeast Asian leaders were embroiled in a fresh row over human rights on Saturday after Myanmar's junta and Cambodia blocked activists from attending rare face-to-face talks.
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the killing of albinos in Tanzania, where at least 45 of them have died since November 2007 in murders linked to witchcraft.
BEIJING, China -- China and the United States have agreed to resume high-level military exchanges, a US defense official said Saturday, as he described two days of talks between the two powers as extremely positive.
BEIJING, China -- Chinese authorities said Saturday a man in monk's robes set himself alight, state media reported, confirming there was unrest in a Tibetan town where activist groups said police shot the protester.
BEIJING -- Japan's foreign minister arrived in China Saturday for a two-day visit that will see the two sides discuss the economic crisis and North Korea, amid a flare-up in tensions over a territorial dispute.
WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu said, in an interview published Saturday, that US President Barack Obama was "interested" in his ideas on moving the Middle East peace process forward, but offered no specifics.
