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ADEN, Yemen – Forces loyal to Yemen’s former president stormed the international airport in the southern port city of Aden on Thursday, triggering an intense, hours-long gunbattle before security forces loyal to the current president repelled them. The fighting forced the airport’s closure, and passengers on a flight to Cairo …

SINGAPORE – As the health of Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew deteriorated on the weekend, thousands of Singaporeans visited his hospital and a community center to leave flowers, gifts and emotional messages of support. Lee, 91, was hospitalized in early February with severe pneumonia. In the past week …

ROME – Key dates in the case of Amanda Knox, the U.S. student who was convicted then acquitted then convicted in the slaying of her British roommate Meredith Kercher. Italy’s high court took up her appeal Wednesday. — Nov. 2, 2007: Kercher, 21, is found dead in Perugia apartment. Investigators …