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The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is ducking questions about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack despite calls by allies and rivals for further comment.

A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto Rico.

Minister Pablo Groux is slamming Sean Penn's proposal to a U.S. congressional subcommittee Monday that Bolivia be cut out of the Dakar motor sport rally unless it frees a U.S. citizen under house arrest.

Pope Francis' obsession with the devil has taken on remarkable new twists, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man from four different demons, despite the Vatican's denials that a papal exorcism took place.

Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the U.S. from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is eliminated.

U.S. officials said they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year. But they don't have enough proof to try them in a U.S. court.

A U.S. Senate panel has overwhelmingly voted to provide weapons to rebels in Syria battling the regime of President Bashar Assad.

Officials said Tuesday that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month, and was transferred to another facility.

Thousands of women hit the streets in Togo on Tuesday to protest the death of an opposition figure who had been thrown in jail -- allegedly without proper medical care.