SEOUL, South Korea — A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” against the state, the Nort...
Building owner to be charged
SAVAR, Bangladesh — A Bangladesh court on Monday allowed police 15 days to interrogate the owner of a building that collapsed last week and k...
AMSTERDAM — Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch king in more than a century today as his mother, Beatrix, abdicated after 33 years as queen.
The generational change ...
PARIS — France said today it will cut another 24,000 military jobs by 2019 as it attempts to maintain a force ready to deal with global threats at the time when the bill...
BEIJING — No buildings constructed after a powerful earthquake struck southwest China in 2008 collapsed fully during last week’s quake in the same province, which means ...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli president’s office says President Shimon Peres will meet the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, next week.
A statement Wednesday said...
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A team of U.S. investigators is speaking with the parents of the two Boston bombing suspects in southern Russia.
The official said Wednesday that ...
SASI-RI, North Korea — The North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone is a hive of activity — not of fighting, but of farming.
Beyond the barbed wire, ruddy-faced Nort...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran today denied any links with an alleged terrorist plot that Canadian authorities claim was directed by al-Qaida operatives in Iran and sought to derai...
ZONNEBEKE, Belgium — The Tyne Cot cemetery sweeps gently down the slope, the nearly 12,000 headstones aligned in solemn rows of gleaming white. Beyond the walls stretch ...
