Kevin Garnett scored 27 points, grabbed 13 rebounds, and used a dominant second quarter to help the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 107-91 on Wednesday night and take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference...get more >>
Kevin Garnett scored 27 points, grabbed 13 rebounds, and used a dominant second quarter to help the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 107-91 on Wednesday night and take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference...get more >>
One of country music's biggest acts is preparing to stage a benefit concert for a southern Indiana town battered by March tornadoes.get more >>
The Grammy Award-winning country music trio Lady Antebellum performed a "mini-prom" for students of a southern Indiana town that was devastated by a tornado in early March.get more >>
By The Associated Press State department officials confirm U.S. law enforcement agents were working with Honduran military forces aboard a helicopter during an anti-drug operation in which at least four...get more >>
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Wednesday that some of its agents were aboard a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police who opened fire on a small boat on a Honduran river, and a local official said two...get more >>
A top negotiator in Greece's huge debt writedown deal has been appointed the country's caretaker finance minister.get more >>
A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.get more >>
This year's Cannes Film Festival features directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from Asia and the Middle East - but no women.get more >>
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, there are directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from Asia and the Middle East - but no women.get more >>
Brazil says it is taking steps to lower the spiraling cost of accommodations during the upcoming United Nations' Rio+20 conference on sustainable development.get more >>
Brazil is taking steps to lower the spiraling cost of accommodations during the United Nations' upcoming conference on sustainable development, the office of President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday.get more >>
Ecuador's official news agency says police have found a cocaine-processing lab near where a small Mexican-registered plane crashed over the weekend with $1.3 million in cash aboard.get more >>
Ecuador's official news agency says police have found a cocaine-processing lab near where a small Mexican-registered plane crashed over the weekend with $1.3 million in cash aboard.get more >>
The news director for one of Honduras' most important radio stations has been found dead, nearly a week after he was kidnapped.get more >>
Honduras' president offered a reward of more than $150,000 Wednesday for information leading to the killers of one of the country's best-known journalists, and authorities later announced that a suspect was being...get more >>
Greece's president is to convene the crisis-struck country's political leaders once more, this time to appoint a caretaker government that will lead the country into new elections next month.get more >>
A senior judge was sworn in Wednesday to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.get more >>
Russian police has uprooted a protest camp in central Moscow that has recently become a center of opposition activity.get more >>
Russian police arrested about 20 protesters on Wednesday night at a central Moscow square where demonstrators had moved after police uprooted them from a camp, the latest move in a broadening crackdown on the forces opposing...get more >>
Leading politicians and journalists have gathered in London to pay tribute to slain war correspondent Marie Colvin.get more >>
Leading politicians and journalists gathered in London on Wednesday to pay tribute to slain war correspondent Marie Colvin, a woman they remembered as fearless, dedicated and kind.get more >>
Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.get more >>
He's no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial began Wednesday, Ratko Mladic still managed to reopen old wounds...get more >>
A team of international observers was evacuated Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a U.N. spokesman said.get more >>
In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a...get more >>
More than 100 abandoned buildings in Rio de Janeiro are in such poor condition they are at risk of collapsing, the head of a regional engineering agency said Wednesday, a day after part of a two-story building crumbled in...get more >>
More than 100 abandoned buildings in Rio de Janeiro are in such poor condition they are at risk of collapsing, the head of a regional engineering agency said Wednesday, a day after part of a two-story building crumbled in...get more >>
Politicians in the tiny nation of Guinea-Bissau say they've signed a deal that would allow the country's interim leader to choose a prime minister.get more >>
Politicians in the tiny nation of Guinea-Bissau say a new prime minister has been chosen to help lead a transition following last month's coup.get more >>
A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in...get more >>
A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in...get more >>
A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in...get more >>
A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in...get more >>
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has sworn in the seven members of a truth commission created to look into human rights abuses committed during the nation's long dictatorship.get more >>
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday swore in the seven members of a truth commission created to investigate human rights abuses committed during the nation's long military dictatorship.get more >>
A midday bombing that killed two bodyguards of an archconservative former interior minister and injured at least 39 people in a busy commercial district of Bogota has raised fears that violence not seen in the Colombian...get more >>
Colombian investigators on Wednesday were seeking a man between 17 and 20 years old they say could be the bomber who killed two bodyguards of a conservative former interior minister and injured 39 people in a busy commercial...get more >>
Europe's human rights court is hearing the case of a German citizen who says the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan in one of the biggest embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism.get more >>
A German citizen took his claim that the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan to Europe's human rights court Wednesday in what could be the final chapter of a case that has shed light on U.S....get more >>
Protesting Chilean students are marching again in the streets of Santiago but Education Minister Harald Beyer says the government will not cede to their demands for free education.get more >>
Cristobal Steffens and his sister Natalie were the first in their family to go to college, and both emerged with good jobs. But they also joined the 500,000 Chileans who have had to take on sometimes-crushing debts. Their...get more >>
The head of Rio de Janeiro's regional engineering agency says the Olympic city has at least 100 abandoned buildings that run the risk of collapse.get more >>
The head of Rio de Janeiro's regional engineering agency says the Olympic city has at least 100 abandoned buildings that run the risk of collapse.get more >>
In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a...get more >>
In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a...get more >>
After nearly a year of cancer treatment that has forced President Hugo Chavez to step back from the spotlight, a burly former bus driver with a dark mustache and affable smile is emerging more than ever as the...get more >>
After nearly a year of cancer treatment that has forced President Hugo Chavez to step back from the spotlight, a burly former bus driver with a dark mustache and affable smile is emerging more than ever as the...get more >>
Egypt's military ruler said Wednesday he hopes that a "great leader" will emerge from the country's upcoming presidential election, and said it will be a free and fair vote that will reflect the will of the people.get more >>
Egypt's military ruler said Wednesday he hopes that a "great leader" will emerge from the country's upcoming presidential election, and said it will be a free and fair vote that will reflect the will of the people.get more >>
A teacher has gone on trial after publicly claiming that she was pressured to help rig Russia's parliamentary election in December to boost the results for Vladimir Putin's party.get more >>
A teacher went on trial Wednesday after publicly claiming that she was pressured to help rig Russia's parliamentary election to boost the results for Vladimir Putin's party.get more >>
A Human Rights Watch investigation has found that renegade Congolese ex-general Bosco Ntaganda forcibly recruited at least 149 boys and young men to fight since his defection from the army in April.get more >>
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human...get more >>
Federal prosecutors say anti-drug agents have detained and are questioning two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary.get more >>
Two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary, were detained by anti-drug prosecutors and are being questioned for alleged links to drug traffickers, authorities said Wednesday.get more >>
The top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner says he wants the shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat to appear before a Palestinian court on embezzlement charges.get more >>
The late Yasser Arafat's powerful moneyman is the target of the highest-profile Palestinian corruption probe to date, facing allegations he syphoned off millions of dollars in public funds, the chief investigator said...get more >>
Palestinian officials say Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is replacing almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet.get more >>
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad replaced almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet on Wednesday, a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split are stuck.get more >>
A black smoke covered Cairo's Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had come to the conclusion their gathering was useless. So over the...get more >>
A black smoke covered Cairo's Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had come to the conclusion their gathering was useless. So over the...get more >>
With a new government in place in France, Turkey is showing a renewed interest in reviving its stalled bid to join the European Union.get more >>
Turkey is showing renewed interest in reviving its stalled bid to join the European Union, now that one of its key opponents is no longer the president of France.get more >>
The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm around a wound on his wrist where shackles have rubbed the skin raw. His own waste...get more >>
The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm around a wound on his wrist where shackles have rubbed the skin raw. His own waste...get more >>
Student protesters have stormed a university in Montreal in an effort to disrupt classes as the Quebec government deals with a standoff over rising tuition fees. One-third of Quebec students are on strike.get more >>
Student protesters have stormed a university in Montreal in an effort to disrupt classes as the Quebec government deals with a standoff over rising tuition fees. One-third of Quebec students are on strike.get more >>
Judges are hearing oral sentencing pleas in Charles Taylor's war crimes case Wednesday, with the former Liberian president expected to speak on his own behalf.get more >>
Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render...get more >>
In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed Wednesday that his regime had captured foreign mercenaries who were fighting for the opposition in a bid to show his forces were fighting...get more >>
In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed Wednesday that his regime had captured foreign mercenaries who were fighting for the opposition in a bid to show his forces were fighting...get more >>
Yemen military officials say the latest fighting to uproot al-Qaida from the country's south has killed 13 militants, as well as four soldiers and two militiamen fighting alongside the army.get more >>
Government troops and warplanes pounded al-Qaida positions in southern Yemen on Wednesday, killing at least 29 militants as part of a ramped up campaign against the group, military officials said.get more >>
The futuristic building - with two leaning towers linked with a 90-degree twist at the top - has attracted much controversy since the day its design debuted a decade ago.get more >>
The futuristic building - with two leaning towers linked with a 90-degree twist at the top - has attracted much controversy since the day its design debuted a decade ago.get more >>
Syrian President Bashar Assad says his country has captured foreign mercenaries who were fighting for the opposition and is ready to show them to the world.get more >>
In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad denounced the opposition Syrian National Council as both ineffective and working against their own people's interests.get more >>
German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her conservative party to an embarrassingly heavy state election defeat.get more >>
German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her conservative party to an embarrassingly heavy state election defeat.get more >>
A U.N. committee says the Syrian government has snubbed its demand for a report on torture.get more >>
The Syrian government snubbed a U.N. committee when it failed to appear Wednesday or report on any efforts to prevent the use of torture, committee members said.get more >>
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta named a new education minister on Wednesday after his two previous appointments were forced to quit over allegations of plagiarism and incompetence.get more >>
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta named a new education minister on Wednesday after his two previous appointments were forced to quit over allegations of plagiarism and incompetence.get more >>
Europe's human rights court is hearing the case of a German citizen who says the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan in one of the biggest embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism.get more >>
Europe's human rights court is hearing the case of a German citizen who says the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan in one of the biggest embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism.get more >>
The mass firing of doctors in Nigeria's largest city is exposing the downfalls of the nation's failing medical system.get more >>
The firing of nearly 800 doctors working at hospitals in Nigeria's most populous state has exposed the failings of the nation's medical system, as lawyers said Wednesday negotiations over the physicians' fate...get more >>
Official figures show that the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro confounded expectations and avoided falling back into recession in the first quarter of the year.get more >>
Germany prevented the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro from falling into a recession in the first quarter of the year despite a raging debt crisis that's raising the specter of the breakup of the currency...get more >>
Poland's former President Lech Walesa says that members of Solidarity, the trade union he once led, deserve to be beaten for a disruptive protest they staged last week in Warsaw.get more >>
Poland's former President Lech Walesa said Wednesday that members of Solidarity, the trade union he once led, deserve to be beaten for a disruptive protest they staged last week in Warsaw.get more >>
Police say attackers fired shots and detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing one person and injuring four.get more >>
Attackers fired shots and detonated four grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing a security guard and wounding five people, including one of the assailants,...get more >>
State prosecutors in Zimbabwe say an opposition politician at a Ford Motor Company car show got into the latest model on display and drove it away. He faces car theft charges in court next month.get more >>
State prosecutors in Zimbabwe say an opposition politician at a Ford Motor Company car show got into the latest model on display and drove it away. He faces car theft charges in court next month.get more >>
Milan's chief prosecutor says the charismatic founder of an Italian party that had vowed to fight political greed is himself under investigation in a widening embezzlement scandal involving party funds.get more >>
Milan's chief prosecutor says the charismatic founder of an Italian party that had vowed to fight political greed is himself under investigation in a widening embezzlement scandal involving party funds.get more >>
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press The indictment against Ratko Mladic - who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands - holds the former Bosnian Serb army...get more >>
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press The indictment against Ratko Mladic - who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands - holds the former Bosnian Serb army...get more >>
A beauty pageant in Fiji has turned into a fiasco involving race, age and even a claim that the contest was rigged.get more >>
First came complaints that the winner of the Miss World Fiji pageant looked too Western to represent her country. Then her age came under scrutiny.get more >>
Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.get more >>
Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.get more >>
A father of 17 who lost six children in an arson attack on his central England home described Wednesday how he made a desperate attempt to rescue the siblings after the blaze broke out.get more >>
A father of 17 who lost six children in an arson attack on his central England home described Wednesday how he made a desperate attempt to rescue the siblings after the blaze broke out.get more >>
An international human rights group says the West African state of Mali is suffering its worst crisis since independence after a coup in the capital and a rebel takeover in the country's north.get more >>
The West African state of Mali is suffering its worst crisis in half a century after a coup in the capital and a rebel takeover in the country's north, an international human rights group said in a report released...get more >>
An Egyptian rights group has released the most comprehensive list to date of the more than 800 civilians killed by security forces in the 18-day uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year, saying that 30 are still...get more >>
Egypt's military ruler says the country's upcoming presidential election will be a "model" of a free and fair vote and will reflect the will of the people.get more >>
Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics, an international aid agency warned Tuesday.get more >>
A team of international observers was evacuated Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a U.N. spokesman said.get more >>
Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says that the European Union can send experts to assess both the medical state of his jailed predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and the legal process that led to her conviction and...get more >>
Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday that the European Union can send experts to assess both the medical state of his jailed predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and the legal process that led to her conviction...get more >>
An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers trying to protect their crops.get more >>
An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers trying to protect their crops.get more >>
Police used batons to disperse stone-throwing opposition supporters outside a court in Bangladesh's capital Wednesday after a judge denied bail to 33 senior opposition members charged with involvement in an arson attack...get more >>
Police used batons to disperse stone-throwing opposition supporters outside a court in Bangladesh's capital Wednesday after a judge denied bail to 33 senior opposition members charged with involvement in an arson attack...get more >>
Police in southern Thailand have seized 26 kilograms (57 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine concealed in a pickup truck's headlights. They arrested six people and say the drugs were to be smuggled to Malaysia.get more >>
Police in southern Thailand have seized 26 kilograms (57 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine concealed in a pickup truck's headlights. They arrested six people and say the drugs were to be smuggled to Malaysia.get more >>
The terror trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president who is accused of running death squads against Shiite pilgrims and government officials has started in Baghdad.get more >>
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president have testified that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under way.get more >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...get more >>
NATO has invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the war in...get more >>
Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened.get more >>
Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened.get more >>
A prominent rights activist jailed in Bahrain says his detention is a political act aimed at weakening the uprising against the Gulf kingdom's rulers.get more >>
A prominent rights activist jailed in Bahrain says his detention is a political act aimed at weakening the uprising against the Gulf kingdom's rulers.get more >>
A Shanghai lawyer says he is trying to visit the jailed nephew of dissident Chen Guangcheng, who sparked a diplomatic crisis last month when he fled into the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.get more >>
A blind Chinese activist who sparked a diplomatic crisis by fleeing into the U.S. Embassy last month filled out a Chinese passport application and posed for a photo Wednesday, moving forward in his bid to study in the United...get more >>
Martha Nussbaum, a U.S. philosopher who has defended a strong role for humanities in education, has won Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize for social sciences.get more >>
Martha Nussbaum, a U.S. philosopher who has defended a strong role for humanities in education, has won Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize for social sciences.get more >>
Indonesian special forces have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of a volcano, killing 45 people. The recording of the plane's veteran pilots could help explain what...get more >>
Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused...get more >>
Security forces fatally shot a teenage girl Wednesday during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development.get more >>
Security forces fatally shot a teenage girl Wednesday during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development.get more >>
The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program.get more >>
The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program.get more >>
Bangladesh says a four-member commission will investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank.get more >>
Bangladesh has ordered a four-member commission to investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.get more >>
The head of a major Greek business organization has lashed out at the country's politicians for failing to form a coalition government and triggering new elections, accusing them of acting like "undertakers"get more >>
The head of a major Greek business organization has lashed out at the country's politicians for failing to form a coalition government and triggering new elections, accusing them of acting like "undertakers"get more >>
A South African police spokesman says officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man.get more >>
Police officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man, a police spokesman said Wednesday.get more >>
China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule.get more >>
China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule.get more >>
Cambodian activists say a 13-year-old girl was shot to death Wednesday in the latest of several clashes between villagers and authorities trying to evict them to make room for development.get more >>
Cambodian activists say a 13-year-old girl was shot to death Wednesday in the latest of several clashes between villagers and authorities trying to evict them to make room for development.get more >>
The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings that reach beyond Tehran's talks with...get more >>
The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings that reach beyond Tehran's talks with...get more >>
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault on al-Qaida militants Tuesday, trying to uproot their hold in the south in an offensive Yemeni officials said was for the first time being...get more >>
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have waged a four-front assault against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with U.S. troops for the first time helping direct the offensive from a nearby...get more >>
World stock markets dropped Monday as worries intensified over the condition of the eurozone and whether Greece is edging towards leaving the single currency union.get more >>
Asian stocks dived Wednesday after a failure by Greece's political leaders to form a coalition government set the stage for new elections next month, keeping Europe's debt crisis center stage.get more >>
Australia has announced it will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 to support Afghan National Security Forces after they take responsibility for their country's security.get more >>
Australia will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 toward the $4 billion a year cost of running the Afghan National Security Forces after they take responsibility for their country's...get more >>
Philippine officials say a Malaysian man has been freed by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants after a year of jungle captivity in the country's south.get more >>
Philippine officials say a Malaysian man has been freed by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants after a year of jungle captivity in the country's south.get more >>
A bomb has exploded on a crowded street in Colombia's capital and the city's health director says at least 19 people have been injured.get more >>
A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in the type of brazen attack not seen in Colombia's...get more >>
The European Union says its naval force off the Somali coastline has carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore.get more >>
European Union naval forces in attack helicopters conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia. A pirate said the strike destroyed a supply center and set back operations.get more >>
Uzbekistan's government plans to sell off almost 500 state assets over the next two years in an ongoing drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation.get more >>
Uzbekistan's government plans to sell off almost 500 state assets over the next two years in an ongoing drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation.get more >>
A bomb targeting a former Colombian interior minister killed at least two people on Tuesday and injured at least 19 others in the heart of Bogota's commercial district, authorities said.get more >>
A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in the type of brazen attack not seen in Colombia's...get more >>
The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh are now investigating whether the billion-dollar project was an elaborate plot to...get more >>
The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are now investigating whether the billion-dollar project was an elaborate swindle.get more >>
Mexico's cultural agency says prolific Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died in a hospital in Mexico City. He was 83.get more >>
Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.get more >>
Defense lawyers in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order testimony from senior U.S. government officials in a motion to dismiss charges.get more >>
Defense teams in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order senior U.S. government officials to testify at the U.S. base in Cuba as part of a motion to dismiss charges, a lawyer for one of the...get more >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...get more >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...get more >>
The Legion of Christ religious order was hit Tuesday by its second scandal in a week after its most well-known priest - a prominent author, lecturer and television personality - admitted he had fathered a child.get more >>
The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a pedophile, admitted Wednesday that it knew that its most famous priest had fathered a child years ago yet didn't remove him...get more >>
Banners have appeared in northern Mexico signed by the Zetas drug cartel saying the gang was not responsible for killing 49 people whose mutilated bodies were found on a highway in a neighboring state.get more >>
Banners have appeared in northern Mexico signed by the Zetas drug cartel saying the gang was not responsible for killing 49 people whose mutilated bodies were found on a highway in a neighboring state.get more >>
The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the new prime minister said Tuesday.get more >>
The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the new prime minister said Tuesday.get more >>
A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has...get more >>
A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has...get more >>
Prosecutors are announcing whether ex-News of the World editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal.get more >>
One of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain's media and political...get more >>
Search teams have found some cockpit instruments in the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a cliff atop a dormant Indonesian volcano.get more >>
Indonesian special forces have found the voice-and-data recorder of a new Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jagged, mist-shrouded cliff on a dormant volcano, an official said Wednesday.get more >>
Haiti's new prime minister says his government is drafting legislation on a newly emerging mining industry to ensure the impoverished Caribbean nation reaps its fair share.get more >>
Haiti's new prime minister says his government is drafting legislation on a newly emerging mining industry to ensure the impoverished Caribbean nation reaps its fair share.get more >>
French officials say that new President Francois Hollande's plane was hit by lightning en route to Berlin. They say no one was hurt but that the plane returned to Paris as a precaution.get more >>
Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France's presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe's debt crisis.get more >>
Marie de Medici wore it at her coronation as Queen Consort of Henry IV in France in 1610, and now the Beau Sancy diamond is a lavish accessory owned by an anonymous bidder who paid $9.7 million for it at Sotheby's...get more >>
Marie de Medici wore it at her coronation as Queen Consort of Henry IV in France in 1610, and now the Beau Sancy diamond is a lavish accessory owned by an anonymous bidder who paid $9.7 million for it at Sotheby's...get more >>
A British judge has sentenced a Bangladeshi man to 15 years in prison for paying young girls for sex and trying to recruit others into prostitution in northern England.get more >>
A British judge on Tuesday sentenced a Bangladeshi man to 15 years in prison for paying young girls for sex and trying to recruit some as young as 12 years old into prostitution in northern England.get more >>
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under...get more >>
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under...get more >>
U.N. nuclear negotiators seeking to probe Tehran's nuclear program for signs of secret work on atomic-weapons technology spoke of a good exchange of views Tuesday after talks with Iranian officials, who described the...get more >>
U.N. nuclear negotiators seeking to probe Tehran's nuclear program for signs of secret work on atomic-weapons technology spoke of a good exchange of views Tuesday after talks with Iranian officials, who described the...get more >>
The longtime operations chief of Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group has been jailed on charges of embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.get more >>
The longtime operations chief of Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group has been jailed on charges of embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.get more >>
An Israeli advocacy group says it has won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing.get more >>
An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group's director...get more >>
The Iranian delegate to talks with the U.N. nuclear agency says the meeting is going well, as the two sides discuss suspicions Tehran might have tested atomic arms technology.get more >>
By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) -get more >>
The Legion of Christ religious order has been hit by a second scandal in a week with the admission that its most well-known priest had fathered a child.get more >>
The Legion of Christ religious order was hit by the second scandal in a week with the admission Tuesday that its most well-known priest, a prominent author, lecturer and television personality, had fathered a child.get more >>
At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel's spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow...get more >>
At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel's spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow...get more >>
Francois Hollande campaigned for the French presidency with some pretty radical promises. But his carefully worded agenda and his political record suggest that after he takes over Tuesday, he's likely to revert to the...get more >>
Francois Hollande campaigned for the French presidency with some pretty radical promises. But his carefully worded agenda and his political record suggest as president he's likely to revert to the moderate...get more >>
At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt's...get more >>
At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt's...get more >>
A roadside bomb struck cars belonging to the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Tuesday, just minutes after regime forces opened fired on a funeral procession nearby and caused multiple casualties, witnesses said.get more >>
A roadside bomb struck cars belonging to the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Tuesday, just minutes after regime forces opened fired on a funeral procession nearby and caused multiple casualties, witnesses said.get more >>
A trench dug across a red dirt road marks part of the shifting border this week between Sudan and South Sudan, old enemies whose forces have clashed in recent weeks. Truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns and 107mm rocket...get more >>
A trench dug across a red dirt road marks part of the shifting border this week between Sudan and South Sudan, old enemies whose forces have clashed in recent weeks. Truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns and 107mm rocket...get more >>
A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity.get more >>
A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity.get more >>
Oslo police say a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre last Julyget more >>
An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed...get more >>
A Ukrainian court has postponed hearing former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal of her conviction and seven-year sentence for abusing her powers in signing a gas deal with Russia.get more >>
Ukraine's prime minister said Tuesday that his predecessor had been correctly convicted of abusing her powers in signing a gas deal with Russia, and invited European observers to watch her appeal.get more >>
Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is finally going on trial on charges of masterminding atrocities throughout the...get more >>
Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is finally going on trial on charges of masterminding atrocities throughout the...get more >>
France gets a new president as Francois Hollande is sworn in as the country's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades at a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in central Paris.get more >>
Francois Hollande walked up the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris and walked out Tuesday as France's first Socialist president since 1995, taking the helm of a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to...get more >>
A U.N. report warns that sub-Saharan African nations will not be able to sustain their economic growth unless they eliminate hunger.get more >>
Sub-Saharan African nations will not be able to sustain their accelerated economic growth unless they eliminate hunger, the U.N. said in a report Tuesday.get more >>
The leader of South Africa's main opposition party was whisked away from a protest in central Johannesburg after rocks were thrown at her.get more >>
South Africa's main opposition party called a march Tuesday to make a point about economic policy, but ended up facing rock-throwing counter-protesters in scenes that illustrated that democracy and traditions of...get more >>
The defense attorney for a German-Afghan man accused of membership in al-Qaida and a second terrorist group says his client should spend no more than four years in jail.get more >>
The defense attorney for a German-Afghan man accused of membership in al-Qaida and a second terrorist group says his client should spend no more than four years in jail.get more >>
The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore, with a pirate reporting that the raid destroyed speed boats, fuel depots and an arms...get more >>
The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore, with a pirate reporting that the raid destroyed speed boats, fuel depots and an arms...get more >>
NATO says it will invite Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari to the alliance's summit in Chicago, after the country's foreign minister proposed reopening its Afghan border to NATO military supplies.get more >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to the alliance's summit in Chicago, after signs that the country could be moving to reopen its Afghan border to NATO military supplies.get more >>
A Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with Somalia.get more >>
A Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with Somalia.get more >>
A U.S. army commander said Tuesday that a joint military drill that has brought together forces from 19 countries in Jordan is not meant as a threat to neighboring Syria or its leader, Bashar Assad.get more >>
A U.S. army commander said Tuesday that a joint military drill that has brought together forces from 19 countries in Jordan is not meant as a threat to neighboring Syria or its leader, Bashar Assad.get more >>
Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners...get more >>
Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners...get more >>
The president of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has rejected a bid by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to replace the Dutch presiding judge in his trial and delay the start of the case.get more >>
The president of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Tuesday rejected a bid by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to replace the Dutch presiding judge in his trial and delay the start of the case.get more >>
Firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, Lebanese gunmen clashed in street battles Monday as sectarian tensions linked to the 14-month-old uprising in Syria bled across the border for a third day.get more >>
Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics, an international aid agency warned Tuesday.get more >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old because it was crying too loud.get more >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old who was crying too loud.get more >>
The Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs says a deal has been reached with Israel to end a weekslong hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.get more >>
Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners...get more >>
A Ugandan official says a top Joseph Kony associate arrested on Saturday may get amnesty in an arrangement that would disappoint activists who want Caesar Acellam tried for Lord's Resistance Army atrocities.get more >>
Uganda may give amnesty to a top Joseph Kony associate arrested last week, a government official said, in an arrangement that would disappoint activists who want Caesar Acellam tried for Lord's Resistance Army atrocities.get more >>
Myanmar's president has assured his South Korean counterpart that his country will no longer buy weapons from North Korea, while conceding it had done so to some extent over the past 20 years.get more >>
Myanmar's president has confirmed that his country bought weapons from North Korea during the past 20 years and assured his South Korean counterpart that it will no longer do so.get more >>
For years, the world has seen the people of North Korea as robotic automatons in meticulously staged mass spectacles that glorify one-family rule.get more >>
From across the city, they are summoned to pay reverence.get more >>
The International Organization for Migration says it has begun airlifting 12,000 stranded South Sudanese from the Sudanese town of Kosti, south of Khartoum.get more >>
The International Organization for Migration says it has begun airlifting 12,000 stranded South Sudanese from the Sudanese town of Kosti, south of Khartoum.get more >>
China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule.get more >>
China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule.get more >>
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are urging judges to convict two Congolese warlords of commanding fighters who wiped out a village in 2003, killing more than 200 civilians, including women children and the...get more >>
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday urged judges to convict two Congolese warlords of commanding the fighters who wiped out a village in 2003, killing more than 200 civilians, including women children...get more >>
Germany's economy grew by a stronger than expected 0.5 percent in the first three months of the year despite Europe's debt crisis.get more >>
Market concerns over the European economy are showing signs of growing after a closely-watched survey of German investors recorded a sharp drop in sentiment after five straight months of increases.get more >>
EU finance ministers are haggling in Brussels over rules to force banks to build up higher capital cushions to protect them against financial shocks, with the U.K. running the risk of being isolated in its position.get more >>
European Union finance ministers are to meet in in Brussels Tuesday to hammer out an agreement over how high banks should build their defenses against future financial shocks, with the U.K. running the risk of being isolated...get more >>
Greece's government on Tuesday strongly criticized the leader of an extreme right party who claimed that Nazi concentration camps did not use ovens and gas chambers to kill prisoners during the Holocaust.get more >>
Greece's government on Tuesday strongly criticized the leader of an extreme right party who claimed that Nazi concentration camps did not use ovens and gas chambers to kill prisoners during the Holocaust.get more >>
By PABLO GORONDI Associated Press Oil prices dropped to near $94 a barrel Monday due to concerns that China's economy, the world's second-largest, is slowing faster than expected as well as...get more >>
Oil prices hovered below $95 a barrel Tuesday in Asia near a five-month low amid concern about Europe's debt crisis.get more >>
Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida fighters on Monday, killing at least 16, while six soldiers died in clashes with militants in the country's troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the terror group,...get more >>
Yemeni military officials say warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have intensified the war against al-Qaida along at least four fronts in the south.get more >>
France's economy did not grow in the first quarter of the year, raising concerns that the country could be headed toward a recession.get more >>
France's economy failed to grow in the first quarter of the year, according to data released Tuesday, raising concerns that the country could be heading toward a recession.get more >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old baby because it was crying too loud.get more >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old baby because it was crying too loud.get more >>
Insurance company Allianz SE says its profits rose 58 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, when it had big payouts for natural disasters including the tsunami in Japan.get more >>
Insurance company Allianz SE says its profits rose 58 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, when it had big payouts for natural disasters including the tsunami in Japan.get more >>
A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a half-year stay at the International Space Station.get more >>
A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station.get more >>
Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured and abused there, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.get more >>
Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured and abused there, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.get more >>
GUATEMALA (AP) - A Guatemalan official says the U.S. government has said it won't return a girl adopted after being snatched from her Guatemalan mother in 2006, because the two countries had not signed the Hague...get more >>
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - The U.S. government has told Guatemala it won't return a girl adopted in 2008 after allegedly being snatched from her Guatemalan mother, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction...get more >>
A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border.get more >>
Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said, in what an analyst said was an...get more >>
Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.get more >>
Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.get more >>
A gunman shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday in Kabul, police said. The assassination strikes another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war.get more >>
A gunman in a car assassinated a former high-ranking Taliban official working to end the decade-long war in Afghanistan, dealing a powerful blow Sunday to the fragile, U.S.-backed effort to bring peace to the country.get more >>
Tori Pinheiro shed tears and shared the sorrow of the loss of her boyfriend as Boston University students, faculty and officials gathered in a campus plaza to mourn three classmates studying abroad who died in a minivan...get more >>
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.get more >>
Greek socialist leader and former finance minister Evangelos Venizelos says he retains "limited but existing" optimism for the possibility of an agreement to form a coalition government, despite meetings with political...get more >>
Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to yet another emergency meeting Tuesday...get more >>
Greek party leaders are to resume power-sharing talks Monday as negotiations to create a government drag into a second week, raising the specter of fresh elections that could threaten the crisis-stricken country's...get more >>
Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to yet another emergency meeting Tuesday...get more >>
Bolivia's principal privately owned airline, AeroSur, was down to a single domestic route Monday and hoping for an infusion of capital to stave off bankruptcy.get more >>
Bolivia's principal privately owned airline, AeroSur, was down to a single domestic route Monday and hoping for an infusion of capital to stave off bankruptcy.get more >>
Some former Haitian soldiers who want to be soldiers again say they met with President Michel Martelly while he ran for office and he promised them he would restore the military.get more >>
The leaders of a band of armed men pressing for the return of Haiti's military met with President Michel Martelly while he was a candidate in hopes that he would bring back the army, a former sergeant said Monday.get more >>
Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling...get more >>
Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing...get more >>
The legal battles of Argentina's vice president just got a lot more complicated. A prosecutor says he has found sufficient cause to ask a federal judge to open an illegal enrichment probe against Amado Boudou. Also...get more >>
Influence peddling and money laundering allegations haven't been enough to topple Argentina's vice president, Amado Boudou. On Monday, illegal enrichment accusations were added to the mix when a federal prosecutor...get more >>
Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said...get more >>
Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said...get more >>
Venezuela's top diplomat says U.S. officials must turn over a former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice whose flight to the United States has angered President Hugo Chavez's government.get more >>
Venezuela's top diplomat says U.S. officials must turn over a former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice whose flight to the United States has angered President Hugo Chavez's government.get more >>
