2013-05-18 01:10:15
Meeting takes place as Russia plays down sending of warships to the Mediterranean.
2013-05-18 00:13:35
Karima el-Mahroug's testimony Friday confirms a sexually charged atmosphere at the get-togethers of the then-sitting Italian premier.
2013-05-18 00:11:10
The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears that the country could again be veering toward civil war.
2013-05-18 00:08:50
The move comes only days after the country's president announced a heightened campaign against insurgents.
2013-05-18 00:06:02
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but suspicion will likely fall on the Pakistani Taliban.
2013-05-17 18:05:02
PARIS -- The French police said on Thursday that a man entered the courtyard of a private Roman Catholic school in the upscale Seventh Arron
2013-05-17 18:04:50
DAKAR, Senegal -- The outpouring of support may be more a sign of nervousness than altruism.
2013-05-17 18:04:36
Greek high school teachers on Thursday called off a planned strike after the government essentially banned it by enacting an emergency law t
2013-05-17 18:04:24
MEXICO CITY -- In 1999, President Bill Clinton went to Guatemala and apologized. Just two weeks earlier, a United Nations truth commission f
2013-05-17 18:04:11
OTTAWA -- As far as YouTube hits go, Canada's contribution has not yet approached the popularity of South Korea's "Gangnam Style." And perha
2013-05-17 18:03:58
BERLIN -- For years, Japan and Europe have been the sick men of the world economy. This week, their paths diverged.
2013-05-17 18:03:45
WASHINGTON -- Russia has sent advanced antiship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian go
2013-05-17 18:03:33
CAIRO -- The black flag of jihad flies over much of northern Syria. In the center of the country, pro-government militias and Hezbollah figh
2013-05-17 18:03:19
Jorge Rafael Videla, the military junta leader who oversaw a ruthless campaign of political killings and forced disappearances during Argent
2013-05-17 18:03:07
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- In what officials called the first major terrorist attack since last week's general elections, at least 13 people were
2013-05-17 18:02:54
BAGHDAD -- At least 66 people were killed in bomb blasts in Iraq on Friday, officials said, making it one of the bloodiest days this year as
2013-05-17 18:02:36
SANTIAGO, Chile -- A judge dismissed an appeal to suspend involuntary manslaughter charges against four government officials accused of fail
2013-05-17 18:02:15
DAKAR, Senegal -- The Nigerian military stepped up its assault on Islamist militants in northeastern Nigeria, military officials said Friday
2013-05-17 18:02:02
PARIS -- France's constitutional high court on Friday rejected legal challenges to legislation that grants same-sex couples the right to mar
2013-05-17 16:29:46
A small, dedicated group of Penguins fans in England are using social media to share their devotion to the team.
2013-05-17 00:16:29
President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan projected a united front on Syria.
2013-05-17 00:14:46
In a country used to shortages, Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper.
2013-05-17 00:06:25
Retired officials consider Republican offer of pre-hearing session an "inappropriate precondition" to their desire to testify publicly.
2013-05-17 00:02:55
Two U.S. soldiers and four U.S. civilian security contractors died in the suicide bombing.
2013-05-16 18:04:38
BEIJING -- The State Department's senior envoy on North Korea said Wednesday that he had discussed "all aspects of the North Korea issue" wi
2013-05-16 18:04:26
DAKAR, Senegal -- Struggling to contain a smoldering Islamist insurgency, the president of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has orde
2013-05-16 18:04:13
GAZA CITY -- The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here -- more
2013-05-16 18:04:00
The head of the federal consumer protection agency was fired Wednesday, weeks after his daughter got inspectors to briefly shut down a resta
2013-05-16 18:03:47
Geza Vermes, a religious scholar who argued that Jesus as a historical figure could be understood only through the Jewish tradition from whi
2013-05-16 18:03:34
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Toyota Corolla packed with explosives rammed a pair of American military vehicles in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on T
2013-05-16 18:03:21
JOHANNESBURG -- "Smile!" the visitor implored, an edge of forced bonhomie in his voice, as he held up a cellphone camera to take a snapshot.
2013-05-16 18:03:08
JAKARTA -- Indonesia has had no shortage of scandals in its decade-long fight against endemic corruption, mostly involving middle-aged polit
2013-05-16 18:02:55
PARIS -- Faced with a deepening economic malaise and mounting public dissatisfaction with his leadership, President François Hollande
2013-05-16 18:02:42
METZ, France -- The French owner of a luxury car business -- accused of masterminding a $50 million million diamond theft at Brussels Airpor
2013-05-16 18:02:29
TREAM TBAL, Cambodia -- A raised storage area collapsed Thursday morning at a footwear factory in this Cambodian village, killing at least t
2013-05-16 18:02:16
MEXICO CITY -- This sprawling city has been described recently as "vibrant" (Elle Decor), "rich with historical heritage and incredible food
2013-05-16 00:30:55
President Goodluck Jonathan declared emergency rule in three northeastern states, giving powers to security forces against insurgents.
2013-05-16 00:30:04
More than 70 countries refused to vote "yes" because of its support for the main opposition group.
2013-05-16 00:28:07
A case similar to this week's arrest and expulsion of a U.S. Embassy official was the second such case this year, Russian state TV reported.
2013-05-15 18:04:42
CAIRO -- Wasfi Amin Wassef used to buy and sell jewelry from his shop in Cairo's vast Khan al-Khalili bazaar. Now he mostly buys it.
2013-05-15 18:04:29
BEIJING -- Taiwan announced Wednesday the withdrawal of its representative in Manila and said it had stopped accepting applications for Fili
2013-05-15 18:03:49
Saloua Raouda Choucair did everything in her life early, or late.
2013-05-15 18:03:36
LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron survived a potentially humiliating challenge to his policies toward the European Union on Wednesday b
2013-05-15 18:03:23
MOSCOW -- Moscow officials rejected on Wednesday an application by gay rights advocates to hold a parade later this month, saying the event
2013-05-15 18:03:10
KIRUNA, Sweden -- The Arctic Council agreed on Wednesday to expand to include six new nations, including China, as observer states, as a cha
2013-05-15 00:13:14
Gruesome video footage purportedly showing a Syrian commander mutilating the corpse of a dead soldier while shouting sectarian insults.
2013-05-15 00:06:40
The test flight could eventually open the way for the United States to launch unmanned aircraft from just about any place in the world.
2013-05-15 00:04:50
By late Tuesday, more than 7 million people had viewed the astronaut's cover of David Bowie's ethereal 1969 hit "Space Oddity."
2013-05-15 00:03:59
A political aide to the prime minister of Japan made a sudden, rare visit to North Korea on Tuesday.
2013-05-14 18:04:44
LONDON -- Buoyed by a measure of support from President Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain sought on Tuesday to calm a clamor wi
2013-05-14 18:04:31
MANILA -- Philippine voters appeared to have strengthened President Benigno S. Aquino III's hand in advancing his political agenda, accordin
2013-05-14 18:04:18
TOKYO -- A political aide to the prime minister of Japan made a sudden, rare visit to North Korea on Tuesday. Japanese officials refused to
2013-05-14 18:04:05
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea proposed on Tuesday to hold a border meeting with North Korea to discuss bringing finished goods and raw m
2013-05-14 18:03:52
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The highest-ranking international military commander in Afghanistan has categorically denied any American or NATO resp
2013-05-14 18:03:39
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The Indonesian police said on Tuesday that they had shot and killed a man they suspected of being an Islamist militant
2013-05-14 18:03:26
LONDON -- The last time that Nawaz Sharif had close dealings with the Pakistani Army, soldiers handcuffed him and imprisoned him in an ancie
2013-05-14 18:03:14
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb tore through an American military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least three so
2013-05-14 18:03:00
MEXICO CITY -- The police here arrested two men on murder and robbery charges on Monday in the beating death last week of Malcolm Shabazz, t
2013-05-14 18:02:47
PARIS -- Officials canceled a city hall ceremony for the champions of France's national soccer league on Tuesday after hundreds of rampaging
2013-05-14 18:02:34
BEIJING -- Staff members at the United States Consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou discovered a suspicious substance in an en
2013-05-14 18:02:21
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's former and future prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, visited his main political rival, Imran Khan, at a Lahore
2013-05-14 18:02:08
MOSCOW -- Russian officials said on Tuesday that they had caught a C.I.A. officer trying to recruit a Russian counterterrorism officer to sp
2013-05-14 00:34:55
The presumptive prime minister said Monday that he wants good relations with the United States but criticized U.S. drone strikes.
2013-05-14 00:14:45
The move follows a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month.
2013-05-14 00:08:50
Prime Minister David Cameron, who favors continued EU membership as long as Britain can reclaim some powers from Brussels.
2013-05-14 00:07:44
The Associated Press has said Honduras street gang members were killed or went missing after run-ins with the U.S.-supported police.
2013-05-14 00:00:50
Samsung Electronics said had it developed data transmission several hundred times faster than the current fourth-generation, technology.
2013-05-13 18:04:51
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has removed a hard-line general from the post of armed forces minister, filling the job with a little-know
2013-05-13 18:04:38
MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan -- The authorities in Afghanistan are seeking the arrest on murder and torture charges of a man they say is an Ame
2013-05-13 18:04:25
HONG KONG -- The Chinese Communist Party has warned officials to combat "dangerous" Western values and other perceived ideological threats,
2013-05-13 18:04:12
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain expressed hope on Monday that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russi
2013-05-13 18:03:56
NEW DELHI – Bangladesh's cabinet approved changes to the nation's labor laws on Monday that officials say will expand benefits for gar
2013-05-13 18:03:43
REYHANLI, Turkey -- Turkish officials said Sunday that they had arrested nine people accused of carrying out twin bombings in this town near
2013-05-13 18:03:31
SEOUL, South Korea -- President Park Geun-hye of South Korea struggled on Monday to contain the biggest setback of her three months in offic
2013-05-13 18:03:18
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Even with their spring offensive under way, the Taliban seemed bent on showing their softer side on Monday.
2013-05-13 18:03:05
MILAN -- The prosecution of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of paying for sex with an under-age prostitute and then abusi
2013-05-13 18:02:52
NEW DELHI -- The bitter and sometimes violent rivalry between India and Pakistan shows no signs of abating, but many in New Delhi greeted Su
2013-05-13 00:13:50
Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers.
2013-05-13 00:13:11
But Turkish officials made it clear that they do not intend to retaliate for the attack.
2013-05-13 00:11:24
The number included 5th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam.
2013-05-13 00:10:31
The Syrian government says its troops have the right to enter the Israeli-occupied Golan whenever they wish.
2013-05-13 00:09:19
Nawaz Sharif's party is expected to win least 46 percent of the seats in the National Assembly, according to Pakistani media projections.
2013-05-12 18:07:36
BRESCIA, Italy -- A rally in this northern Italian city on Saturday to protest two court rulings against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlus
2013-05-12 18:07:23
TEHRAN -- Iran's presidential race entered a new, unpredictable phase on Saturday when two game-changing politicians, both out of favor with
2013-05-12 18:07:10
CAIRO -- Egyptian security forces have arrested three militants with ties to Al Qaeda who were planning terrorist attacks in Egyptian cities
2013-05-12 18:06:56
SEOUL -- State prosecutors have sought an arrest warrant for a South Korean journalist and podcast star for reporting an unconfirmed suspici
2013-05-12 18:06:43
CAIRO -- One washed towels in a barbershop. The other sold fast food. Some nights, they would grab the microphones at outdoor weddings and t
2013-05-12 18:06:29
LAHORE, Pakistan -- Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, once a political exile deposed by the military, returned to the cusp of power on Sat
2013-05-12 18:06:16
QS, a British education company that produces an established international university ranking system, rated institutions based on specific m
2013-05-12 18:06:03
LONDON -- The long-running dispute between faculty members at the Florence campus of New York University and the program's administrators to
2013-05-12 18:05:49
LONDON -- Until very recently, students in Britain who wanted to study more than one or two subjects at college received some blunt advice:
2013-05-12 18:05:36
Two Last-Minute Presidential Candidates in Iran Draw Strong Reactions
2013-05-12 18:05:22
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Bulgarians went to the polls on Sunday to choose a government to replace one forced to resign following a bloody crackdow
2013-05-12 18:05:09
REYHANLI, Turkey -- The Turkish authorities said Sunday that nine people had been detained in twin car bombings a day earlier in southern Tu
2013-05-12 18:04:55
HONG KONG -- China's top anti-corruption agency said Sunday that it was investigating a senior economic policy maker, Liu Tienan, in an abru
2013-05-12 00:26:26
Tracy Certo, a veteran of Habitat for Humanity found remarkable strength in a Mozambican village afflicted by poverty and HIV/AIDS.
2013-05-12 00:16:17
Finance ministers from leading global economies avoided a public rift with Japan over policies driving down the value of its currency.
2013-05-12 00:08:47
The gains are bolstered by a new strategy, the support of Iran and Russia and the assistance of fighters with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
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