BEIJING — China said today it was moving a second oil rig closer to the Vietnamese coast in disputed waters, near where ships from the two countries have been ramming ea...
Iraqi officials say facility not seized
BAGHDAD — Sunni militants hung their black banners on watch towers at Iraq’s largest oil refinery, a witness said today, suggestin...
Father abdicates throne for son
MADRID — Spain’s new King Felipe VI was proclaimed monarch at a formal ceremony in the country’s Parliament today, a deliberately low-key ...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and claimed to regain partial control of a city near the Syrian border today...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not ruling out potential U.S.-Iranian military c...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Dozens of extremists attacked a Kenyan coastal town for hours, killing those who couldn’t answer questions about Islam and those who didn’t know the Som...
LONDON — Hundreds of British soldiers in tall bearskin hats and ceremonial dress marched Saturday in central London for the “Trooping the Color” parade, an annual displa...
25th anniversary of crackdown
BEIJING — Heavy security blanketed central Beijing on the 25th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy p...
Ukraine to get new assistance
WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama held up 25 years of Polish democracy as a beacon for neighboring Ukraine in a public celebration tod...
He's currently in German hospital
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban today released a video showing the handover of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan...
