At least 127 killed in attacks
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande vowed to attack the Islamic State group without mercy as the jihadist group admitted responsibil...
SINJAR, Iraq — Iraqi Kurdish militias battling to take back Sinjar from Islamic State militants raised a Kurdish flag in the center of town and a top official said it wa...
SINJAR, Iraq — Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, launched a major assault today aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, which the Islamic Sta...
SIAK, Indonesia — Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol.
Officials in Indonesia are using trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hose...
BERLIN — Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, stood firm against a wave of homegrown terrorism and b...
UNITED NATIONS — Russia has circulated a document on ending the nearly five-year-old Syrian conflict that calls for drafting a new constitution in up to 18 months that w...
BEIJING — Chinese authorities expect that easing the country’s one-child policy will add more than 30 million people to the country’s labor force by 2050, a senior offic...
Russia says it's still speculative
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron declared today it was “more likely than not” a bomb brought down a Metrojet flight packed...
Vatican leaks scandal grows
The Vatican’s new leaks scandal intensified today with a book detailing the mismanagement and internal resistance that is thwarting Pope ...
224 killed on Russian plane
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Only an external impact could have caused a Russian plane to dive into the Egyptian desert, killing all 224 people on...
