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AP Top International News At 4:15 a...AP Top International News At 4:15 a.m. EDT
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a compound in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four suspected militants in an attack that comes as Washington is running out of patience with Islamabad's refusal to reopen supply routes for NATO troops in Afghanistan....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's four biggest commercial banks will receive an (EURO)18 billion ($23 billion) cash infusion from the European bailout fund....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iranian adviser says Tehran's tentative agreement to let U.N. inspectors into a suspected nuclear testing site is a show of good faith that must be reciprocated in negotiations with world powers meeting in Baghdad....
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Lady Gaga is as confused as anyone about whether she'll be allowed to perform in Indonesia....
BIR ZEIT, West Bank (AP) -- At 26, Saed Qasrawi is among the oldest students at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank....
CAIRO (AP) -- Determined to end decades of authoritarian rule, millions of Egyptians on Wednesday waited patiently in long lines outside polling stations across the nation to freely chose their first president since last year's ouster of longtime ruler and close U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak....
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) -- Turkmenistan signed a natural gas deal with Pakistan and India on Wednesday, in a significant boost to the proposed construction of a 1,800-kilometer (1,100-mile) pipeline across Afghanistan....
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A private news magazine in Myanmar won a rare court victory Wednesday and will not have to reveal the name of a reporter who wrote about corruption at government ministries....
BEIJING (AP) -- A branch of city governments China set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday....
