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Beijing--A popular Chinese Web portal said Wednesday it is taking over operation of two services developed and formerly operated with Google just days after the search giant took a risky stand against China's strict Internet censorship rules by...
Washington—The US Justice Department has accused car manufacturer Daimler AG of paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to officials of at least 22 foreign governments over the course of a decade.
Filings in federal court in...
The Arab League chief wants the 22-nation bloc to engage Iran directly over concerns about its growing influence and its nuclear activities, in a step that could undermine US and Israeli efforts to isolate the country, diplomats said Tuesday.
Senior...
Paris--Nationwide strikes in France hobbled public services from transport to schools Tuesday, with unions hoping their action would put the brakes on reforms planned by President Nicolas Sarkozy two days after his party's stinging defeat in...
Sudan's president threatened Monday to expel foreign observers over their recommendations to delay the country's first multiparty elections in decades due in April.
The April vote — Sudan's first multiparty elections in decades — will...
Jerusalem--An Israeli journalist arrested by Egyptian police last week while sneaking across the border with African migrants returned home on Monday, saying he had been treated roughly in captivity and that some of his materials had been...
New York, United States--Four men accused of trying to bomb synagogues and shoot down planes in New York last spring did little more than go along with a fake plot proposed, directed and funded by the federal government, defense lawyers claim in...
Baghdad-- A secular coalition challenging the Iraqi prime minister in the country's historic parliamentary elections has narrowly pulled ahead for the first time in the overall vote count, although it still trails in the crucial province-by-province...
Bangkok--Thai protesters poured blood they had donated outside the front gate of the government headquarters Tuesday in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.
Thousands of red-shirted demonstrators formed long lines to have...
Egypt's stock market is rebounding after investor worries over President Hosni Mubarak's health pushed the benchmark index to its lowest point in three months.
The exchange EGX 30 index was up 1.52 percent by 1 PM to 6,449.69 points, after realizing...
