John Huntsinger

The official Xinhua News Agency says Chinese workers abducted in Sudan during a rebel attack on a work site have boarded a Red Cross plane to leave rebel territory.

State news agency says Chinese workers held in Sudan have boarded plane to leave rebel area.

Iran's parliament has summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including allegations that he mismanaged the nation's economy.

Ministers from Iraq's Sunni-backed bloc ended their boycott of the Cabinet on Tuesday, a move that could restore some stability to the war-ravaged nation that has been mired in a security and political crisis since the U.S. completed its military withdrawal from the country.

Prosecutors say police have arrested two men on allegations they were spying on Syrian opposition groups in Germany.

Vice president Mohammed Waheed Hassan has taken an oath to be Maldives president after his predecessor Mohamed Nasheed resigned after weeks of protests.

Vietnam has arrested nine members of an alleged "reactionary political organization" seeking to overthrow the government.

Maldives Vice President Hassan takes oath as president after protests oust Mohamed Nasheed.

An Afghan official says a shooting in the southern city of Kandahar has left five dead, including two police officers and three private security guards.

A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, officials said.

Thousands of Syrians waving Russian flags cheered Russia's foreign minister as he arrived in Damascus Tuesday for talks with embattled President Bashar Assad on the country's escalating violence.

China on Tuesday vowed to crack down on unrest in Tibetan areas and accused overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the recent violence.

Russia says its foreign minister has arrived in Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad.

Soldiers guarding a city at the heart of ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria detained and later threw out journalists working for a French television station trying to cover the ongoing unrest there, the reporters said.

Israeli police say "death to Christians" and other Hebrew-language graffiti has been scrawled on a Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem.

Russia says its foreign minister has arrived in Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad.

Wherever North Korea's young new leader goes, they're there: a group of graying military and political officials who shadow Kim Jong Un as he visits army bases, attends concerts and tours schools.

Israeli defense officials say they are increasingly concerned that Lebanese militants could get their hands on weapons from violence-wracked Syria.

The first democratically elected president of the Maldives resigned Tuesday and was replaced by his vice president after the police and army clashed in the streets of the island nation amid protests over the arrest of a top judge.

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed announced his resignation Tuesday following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge.