Prime minister named Tuesday
CAIRO — Egypt’s military-backed interim leader named a new prime minister and won $8 billion in promises of aid from wealthy Arab allies in t...
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — Quebec police are pursuing a painstaking, wide-ranging criminal investigation of the inferno ignited by the derailment of a runaway oil train that...
CAIRO — More than 50 people were killed Monday in clashes in Egypt, but Interim President Adly Mansour moved forward, issuing a swift timetable late Monday for the proce...
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — Investigators searching for the cause of a fiery oil train derailment that wiped out a small town’s center and killed at least 13 people zeroed in...
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — Hazardous conditions hindered firefighters’ attempts today to search for some 40 people still missing after a runaway oil tanker train exploded ea...
Snowden still seeking haven
CARACAS, Venezuela — The quest by NSA leaker Edward Snowden for a safe haven has taken a turn toward Latin America, with offers for asylum co...
Single miracle called sufficient
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis today cleared Pope John Paul II for sainthood, approving a miracle attributed to his intercession and setting...
No allies would stand with him
CAIRO — The army chief came to President Mohammed Morsi with a simple demand: Step down on your own and don't resist a military ultimatum o...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s government says Nelson Mandela remains in a critical but stable condition and denies that he is in a vegetative state.
A court document fi...
Military wants crisis resolved
CAIRO — Egypt was on edge today following a “last-chance” ultimatum the military issued to Mohammed Morsi, giving the president and the opp...
