GENEVA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva today to test the seriousness of a Russian proposal to secure Syria’s chemical weapons.
Kerry and a team of...
Weapons plan is accepted
PARIS — Syria has accepted a proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for dismantling, the Syrian foreign minister said...
TOKYO — The Japanese government announced Tuesday that it will spend $470 million on a subterranean ice wall and other steps in a desperate bid to stop leaks of radioact...
LONDON — David Frost, best known for his compelling interviews of former President Richard Nixon, died of a heart attack Saturday night aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise...
British Parliament votes to opt out
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday prepared for the possibility of launching unilateral American military action against ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand man pleaded guilty Thursday to running a $300 million Ponzi scheme, the country’s largest ever.
Former Wellington financial advis...
Strike against Syria an option
DAMASCUS, Syria — U.N. chemical weapons experts headed to a Damascus suburb today for a new tour of areas struck by a purported poison gas ...
Syria accused of using chemical weapons last week
WASHINGTON — The ranking Senate Foreign Relations Committee Republican is urging a “surgical” U.S. airstrike against Syr...
Foreigners told to avoid country
CAIRO — Heshmat Youssef used to make a decent living sailing foreign tourists down Egypt’s Nile River. Since political unrest flared, bus...
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus today, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said the regime had kil...
