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Cuban President Raul Castro flew to Caracas on Friday to attend a meeting with other allies of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who was at the airport for the arrival.

A Western diplomat says the Security Council will meet Saturday morning, when a much-negotiated resolution on Syria could reach a vote.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned of a war between Khartoum and South Sudan because their failure to settle a dispute over an oil export deal.

A Pentagon official is refusing to extend a deadline and delay the trial of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Diplomats say requests made by the U.N nuclear agency at talks this week with Iran have further raised the pressure on Tehran to address allegations of a secret arms program.

Canada's prime minister is heading to China next week in a visit that will be dominated by discussion of Canada's vast oil reserves.

Human Rights Watch says soldiers have detained and tortured children as young as 13 as President Bashar Assad's regime tries to crush a nearly 11-month-old uprising. 

The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant says more radioactive water has leaked at the seaside complex. 

Anonymous has released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group.

The official Xinhua News Agency says the accident occurred at the Diaoyutai mine outside Yibin city in Sichuan province.