MONTREUX, Switzerland — Syrian peace talks began today in Switzerland with a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said ...
VATICAN CITY — A Vatican monsignor already on trial for allegedly plotting to smuggle $26 million from Switzerland to Italy was ordered arrested in a separate case today...
Syria peace talks start this week
GENEVA — Russia and Iran criticized the U.N. chief’s decision to withdraw Tehran’s invitation to join this week’s peace conference on Sy...
Sanctions to be lifted partially
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran started to shut down its most sensitive nuclear work today, part of a landmark deal struck with world powers that eas...
2 Americans among victims
KABUL, Afghanistan — The death toll from a Taliban attack on a Kabul restaurant popular with foreigners and affluent Afghans has risen to 21 peo...
Onoda hid in jungle 29 years
TOKYO — Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender, 29 years after th...
KUWAIT CITY — The United States pledged today to send an additional $380 million in aid this year to help victims of Syria’s brutal civil war, but warned international e...
Berlin museum claims pieces were bought
BERLIN — It’s a medieval treasure trove worth an estimated quarter of a billion dollars, filled with gold crosses studded with ge...
STOCKHOLM — Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives and will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the p...
JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle...
