2013-08-05
Anita Powell JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s election is receiving wide criticism after longtime President Robert Mugabe swept the vote in an election the opposition says was rigged. Australia...
2013-08-05
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said the time for peace with Marxist FARC rebels is now or never but the instant he determines negotiations are going nowhere or strengthening...
2013-08-05
The European Commission has approved the proposed merger between US Airways and AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, removing another obstacle to the deal. As a condition of its approval, the...
2013-08-05
Government troops have stepped up efforts to stamp out Islamist Boko Haram fighters that are hunkered down in the north. (Joe Brock/Reuters) At least 35 people have been killed in two separate gun...
2013-08-05
Reuters August 5, 2013 - 16:24 ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Judicial authorities in Ivory Coast have ordered the release from prison of 14 top allies of ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, including his son,...
2013-08-05
Former President, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has decried the seeming unending crisis in Egypt and is urging an alliance of global voices to stop what he says is the unfair treatment of deposed...
2013-08-05
Beirut: Ballistic missiles used by the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad are killing many civilians, including children, an international rights group said on Monday. These missiles "are...
2013-08-05
HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — A top U.S. diplomat met early on Monday a jailed senior leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, part of mediation efforts to end the standoff between Egypt's...
2013-08-05
Islamabad: Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods across Pakistan have killed 60 people over the past three days, with southern port city of Karachi being worst-hit, officials said on Monday. Most of...
2013-08-04
West on Alert Over Fears of al Qaeda Attacks Bahraini troops guard the U.S. embassy in Manama on Sunday, one of 21 American missions closed around the world amid an al Qaeda terror threat to Western...
2013-08-04
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called an election for Sept. 7 and said Sunday that it will be fought over who can be trusted to manage the Australian economy as it transitions from a decade-old mining boom...
2013-08-04
Iran’s new President Hassan Rohani was set to take the oath before parliament on Sunday a day after taking office with a promise to work to ease crippling Western sanctions. Rohani formally took...
2013-08-04
RABAT – Morocco’s king on Saturday announced an investigation into the release of a Spanish paedophile convicted of raping 11 children aged between four and 15. Daniel Galvan Vina, said to be in his...
2013-08-03
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah makes a rare public appearance Friday during a rally to mark Jerusalem day, or Al-Quds day, pledging to continue to support the Palestinian cause. (Hussein...
2013-08-03
BEIRUTUnited Nations experts are investigating allegations that rebels killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in a village near Aleppo after they captured it from government troops, an incident...
2013-08-03
A new Chinese government website made with the cooperation of executives from Yahoo, China Telecom, Baidu, and Sohu is setting out to debunk urban legends on the Internet. The site, py.qianlong.com,...
2013-08-03
EGYPTIAN authorities have outlined plans to break up two sit-ins by supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, saying they would set up a cordon around the protest sites, as riot police used tear...
2013-08-03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans Friday about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the...
2013-08-03
Al Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri has accused the United States of "plotting" to overthrow Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. In an audio recording posted to militant Islamist forums, he said...
2013-08-03
ROME — Lawmakers from former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s political party said Friday that they were prepared to resign en masse to protest Mr. Berlusconi’s definitive conviction for tax fraud,...
2013-08-02
Relic found within small stone chest The archaeologists came across a small stone chest while working in the ruins of the Balatlar Church. The chest bore two crosses which were carved into the stone....
2013-08-02
WASHINGTON -- A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral has been ordered released to a halfway house. Jiamei Tian appeared at a preliminary hearing in D.C. Superior Court on...
2013-08-02
Jalalabad: More than 20 Afghan policemen and dozens of Taliban insurgents were killed on Friday when hundreds of fighters ambushed a police and military convoy in eastern Afghanistan, officials said....
2013-08-02
MADRID -- The driver of a Spanish train that derailed, killing 79 people, ignored three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks on a treacherous curve,...
2013-08-02
President Robert Mugabe's party has won at least a two-thirds majority in parliament, enough to amend the country's constitution, according to a tally of official results. Friday's results showed...