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Baghdad--A fierce blaze at a hotel without fire escapes sent some desperate guests plunging to their deaths in a northern Iraqi oil boomtown, killing 28 people.
Half of those killed were foreigners, a reflection of the thousands of migrants who have...
An Israeli military vessel confronted a Libyan aid ship Tuesday trying to breach Israel's three-year-old Gaza blockade and ordered it to divert to an Egyptian port, the Israeli military and organizers said.
The Gadhafi International Charity and...
YAKAGHUND, Pakistan — The men and women wailed, stood stunned or wearily sifted through the rubble Saturday for bodies, survivors and answers. Only one thing seemed certain: In the end, the two suicide bombers who killed 102 people in this village...
NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he intends to "confound" critics and skeptics and make peace with the Palestinians — but he said he needs a partner.
Netanyahu challenged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to sit...
GAZA CITY — The militant Hamas group launched a campaign to arrest suspected collaborators with Israel in the Gaza Strip, detaining five in overnight raids, a Hamas security official said Wednesday.
The raids began after a two-month amnesty for...
VIENNA - The International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that its senior and key nuclear inspector, Olli Heinonen, will be leaving his post at the end of August.
Heinonen, a deputy director, has headed the U.N. nuclear watchdog's all-...
Osh, Kyrgyzstan-- Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday as ethnic rioting engulfed new areas in southern Kyrgyzstan. The government ordered troops to shoot rioters dead but even that failed to stop the spiraling...
Islamabad--A research report says Pakistan's main spy agency continues to train, fund and arm the Taliban despite intense US pressure to sever ties with the group.
The report issued Sunday by the London School of Economics says interviews with...
London--President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron Saturday that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain, Cameron's office said, as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-...
JOHANNESBURG— The world came to Soweto on Thursday for a celebration of soccer, music and unity on the eve of Africa's first World Cup, with a concert featuring international headliners Shakira, the Black Eyed Peas and Alicia Keys.
Warm-up acts...
