ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities today banned a protest rally and march by trade union and civic society activists who lost friends and colleagues in Turkey's bloodi...
LONDON — London's Royal Free Hospital says a nurse who recovered from Ebola last year is being treated for an unusual late complication of the infection.
A military airc...
OSLO, Norway — A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize today for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement.
The Norwegian Nobe...
STOCKHOLM — Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature today for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage.”
A...
Guatemalan community buried by massive event
SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala — Guatemalan officials weighed what to do with the site of a massive, acres-wide mudslide th...
STOCKHOLM — Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics today for the discovery of neutrino oscillations.
The Royal Swedish Acad...
ANTIBES, France — In a matter of minutes, torrential rains transformed the postcard-perfect French Riviera into a terrifying flood zone, leaving at least 16 dead, trappi...
DAMASCUS, Syria — Russian warplanes have attacked the Islamic State group and other insurgents in central and northern Syria with a wave of new airstrikes, Syrian and Ru...
MOSCOW — Russian military jets carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria today for the first time, the defense ministry said.
The airstrikes target...
Migrants cause tensions to rise
ZAGREB, Croatia — Tensions escalated between Serbia and Croatia today as the longtime foes struggled to come up with a coherent way to dea...
