The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency has slammed opponents of a recent nuclear framework agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries. John Brennan told an audience of students...
The mayor of the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas has formally been accused of attempting a US-funded coup d’état against the South American country’s PresidentNicolas Maduro....
8 April 2015 From the section AsiaTaiwan has begun rationing water supplies to more than one million households as it tackles the island's worst drought in years. Water supplies will be cut off...
WASHINGTON — Problems at a Maryland electrical station caused widespread power outages across the nation’s capital Tuesday, affecting the White House, the Capitol, museums, train stations and other...
A white police officer from the US state of South Carolina has been charged with murder after a video showed him shooting eight times at the back of a 50-year-old black man who was running away. North...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., waves to supporters during a rally on Tuesday. Paul announced that he is running for his party's nomination for the 2016 presidential race, making him the second major...
MEXICOCITY (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers foiled the construction of a suspected drug tunnel underneath a house near the U.S. border, arresting nine people and impounding a truck used to clear debris,...
n">(Reuters) - Kansas became the first state to ban a common second trimester abortion procedure when GovernorSam Brownback, a Republican, on Tuesday signed into a law an act to halt what lawmakers...
(CNN)An Amnesty International report released today is calling for authorities to address the number of attacks on women's rights activists in Afghanistan. The report, entitled "Their Lives on the...
WASHINGTON -- After months of anticipation, Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to launch her presidential campaign sometime in the next two weeks with an initial focus on intimate events putting her...
NEW YORK (AP) — Suddenly, in the middle of the New York night, EdwardSnowden's face appeared — deep in a public park. A 4-foot-high, 100-pound sculpted bust of the whistleblower now exiled in Russia...
ISTANBUL — Turkey blocked access to social networking sites Twitter and YouTube for several hours on Monday over photos showing a militant pointing a gun at a prosecutor who died last week in a failed...
VOA News The Obama administration is opening a new phase of its strategic "rebalance" toward Asia and the Pacific by investing in high-end weapons - such as a new long-range stealth bomber,...
HAVANA (AP) — American hopes of opening an embassy in Havana before presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet at a regional summit this week have been snarled in disputes about Cuba's presence on...
Armed with an asteroid hunter, lunar flashlight and DNA kit, NASA will launch the unmanned Orion spacecraft using the Space Launch System (SLS) — its largest, most powerful rocket booster ever...
ROME, April 5 (Reuters) - Italian navy and coast guard ships rescued around 1,500 migrants aboard five boats in the southern Mediterranean in less than 24 hours,...