BAGHDAD — Baghdad’s neighborhood of Gorayaat, a small Shiite enclave on a bend in the Tigris River, exemplifies the failures of Iraq’s security agencies trying to protec...
Others feared to be dead
CAIRO — A shoddy seven-story building collapsed early this morning in a populous eastern Cairo district, killing at least 17 people while several...
BAUCHI, Nigeria — Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up today in a crowded market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, accord...
4 Italians and 2 Indians picked
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis canonized six new saints Sunday, including a priest and a nun from the Indian state of Kerala, in a packed cer...
Political accord due by March 1
VIENNA — Nuclear negotiators have failed to meet a deadline today for a deal that would ease international concerns about Iran’s atomic pr...
VIENNA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry decided today to pull back from nuclear talks in Vienna, leaving Iran’s foreign minister to ponder an apparent new proposal m...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Latin Americans born into Roman Catholic families have increasingly left the faith for Protestant churches, while many others have dropped organized rel...
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces demolished the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian who carried out a deadly October attack, just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah...
MOSCOW — The head of Russia's race walking center has been banned for four years following an investigation into claims of systematic doping.
Russia is the dominant powe...
Tensions mount over holy site
JERUSALEM — Two Palestinian cousins stormed a Jerusalem synagogue today, attacking worshippers with meat cleavers and a gun during morning p...
