2015-04-08
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...
2015-04-08
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 President Nicolas Maduro....
2015-04-08
8 April 2015 From the section Asia Taiwan 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...
2015-04-08
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...
2015-04-08
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...
2015-04-08
ISLAMABAD: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif lands here on Wednes­day on a two-day visit amid heightened regional diplomacy over Yemen. Mr Zarif will reach Islamabad from Oman, where he had gone...
2015-04-08
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...
2015-04-08
Determined to take Greek-Russian relations out of “the deep freeze”, a defiant Alexis Tsipras flew to Moscow yesterday for talks with president Vladimir Putin, ratcheting up the pressure on the...
2015-04-08
Prince Andrew leaves the Easter Sunday service at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle Photo: Getty Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Roberts a 'serial liar': lawyer Alan Dershowitz Prince Andrew...
2015-04-08
MEXICO CITY (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,...
2015-04-08
n">(Reuters) - Kansas became the first state to ban a common second trimester abortion procedure when Governor Sam Brownback, a Republican, on Tuesday signed into a law an act to halt what lawmakers...
2015-04-07
A soldier this week prays at a mass grave for Shi'ite soldiers from Camp Speicher. Photo: Reuters US worry over what follows swift Iraq win in Tikrit, says general Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi...
2015-04-07
Add comment Reprints + - advertisement | advertise on newsday LONDON - (AP) -- Former British leader Tony Blair has warned of economic chaos should Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party...
2015-04-07
(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...
2015-04-07
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...
2015-04-07
ATHENS, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Germany owes Greece about 278.7 billion euros (about 307 billion U.S. dollars) in reparations for WWII, Greek Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas said on Monday,...
2015-04-07
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has rejected Israel’s demand that the Obama administration should persuade Iran to recognise the Jewish state before signing a final nuclear deal with it. “This is...
2015-04-07
PHOENIX: The United States is “deeply concerned” by some of China’s behavior but the top world powers do not need to be adversaries, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Monday as he prepared to...
2015-04-07
NEW YORK (AP) — Suddenly, in the middle of the New York night, Edward Snowden's face appeared — deep in a public park. A 4-foot-high, 100-pound sculpted bust of the whistleblower now exiled in Russia...
2015-04-07
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...
2015-04-06
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,...
2015-04-06
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...
2015-04-06
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...
2015-04-05
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas today threatened to turn to the International Criminal Court over Israel's refusal to fully release hundreds of millions of dollars in tax monies owed the...
2015-04-05
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,...