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A supporter of Afghanistan's presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, holds his poster as he and scores of others celebrate in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 7, 2014. Afghan officials released preliminary election results Monday showing former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner can be declared because millions of ballots were being audited for fraud. The announcement came as Ahmadzai is locked in a standoff with his rival Abdullah Abdullah, who has refused to accept any results until all fraudulent ballots are invalidated. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan officials: Ahmadzai leads in disputed vote

AMIR SHAHRAHIM FAIEZ · July 7, 2014 7:55 pm

People walk under a destroyed railroad bridge over a main road leading into the east Ukraine city of Donetsk, near the village of Novobakhmutivka, 20 km North from the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Monday, July 7, 2014. The bridge has been destroyed, blocking a key access route to the rebel-held city. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

3 bridges blown up in Ukraine near rebel-held city

Yuras Karmanau · July 7, 2014 7:54 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Monday, July 7, 2014.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

National Security

German leader: US spy reports serious if true

Gillian Wong · July 7, 2014 7:48 pm

Loch Ness monster it ain’t: 6-foot croc in Greece

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 7:25 pm

In this Sunday, July 6, 2014 photo, a displaced Iraqi family who fled from Baqouba after advances by Islamic militants, sits in their tent at a camp in Khanaqin, 90 miles (140 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Adam Hadei)

Iraqi parliament squabbles over when to next meet

RYAN LUCASQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · July 7, 2014 7:21 pm

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, centre, arrives at the Old Bailey court to receive his sentence, in London, Friday, July 4, 2014. Coulson, a onetime aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Friday for participating in a conspiracy to hack the phones of celebrities, politicians and crime victims. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

National Security

UK PM’s ex-aide Coulson facing perjury charge

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 7:19 pm

Egypt President defends recent price hikes

SARAH EL DEEB · July 7, 2014 6:56 pm

International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach of Germany, speaks during the announcement of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games Candidate Cities (Beijing 2022, Oslo 2022, Almaty 2022) after an executive board meeting, at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott)

Almaty, Beijing, Oslo make list for 2022 Olympics

Stephen Wilson · July 7, 2014 6:05 pm

A supporters of the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy or Cord holds a placard in a bus reading in Leo language " Our Hero Raila Amolo Odinga, as they drive through a street in Nairobi to attend a rally at Uhuru Park in Nairobi Monday July 7, 2014. Thousands of government security agents in riot gear patrolled the streets of the Kenyan capital ahead of planned opposition rally. Fears of violence are rife over mounting tension between supporters of the opposition Cord and those who support government of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Some businesses in Nairobi have closed for fear of riots. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Thousands rally in Kenya against president’s rule

Tom Odula · July 7, 2014 5:58 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 12, 2009 file photo, former Georgian president and ex-Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze speaks to The Associated Press in Tbilisi, Georgia. Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday, June 7, 2014 at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, file)

Shevardnadze, ex-Georgian president, dies at 86

Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili · July 7, 2014 5:46 pm

In this Jan 18, 2014, photo, Villa Clara's pitcher Diosdani Castillo takes a break after a training session at the Latinamerican stadium in Havana, Cuba. Cuban authorities say Castillo, as well as the team's other pitcher Yasmany Hernandez Romero, will no longer play for the local club which won the championship last season, after they allegedly attempted to defect. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Cuba: Team boots 2 pitchers after defection bids

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 5:02 pm

This Sunday July 6, 2014 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows weapons that SANA says were captured by Syrian government forces in the Sheikh Najjar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian government forces last week seized the Sheikh Najjar neighborhood and a key industrial area, allowing them to choke off rebel-held parts of Aleppo. Syrian troops advanced inside and near northern Aleppo on Monday in what appears to be an attempt to lay siege to rebel-held parts of the country's largest city, activist said Monday. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian army tries to choke off rebels in Aleppo

BASSEM MROUEDIAA HADID · July 7, 2014 4:58 pm