Country to host big sports events
SANTA MARIA, Brazil — Flammable and toxic foam soundproofing on the ceiling. Just one exit for a large club that could hold hundreds of ...
CAIRO — Egypt’s army chief warned today of the “the collapse of the state” if the political crisis roiling the nation for nearly a week continues.
The warning by Abdel-F...
SANTA MARIA, Brazil — The bodies of the young college students were found piled up just inside the entrance of the Kiss nightclub, among more than 230 people who died in...
Newcomer puts up fight
JERUSALEM — A badly weakened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled today to keep his job by extending his hand to a new centrist party that a...
Ambassador, 3 others killed
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressional testimony concerning the assaul...
Victims were gas workers
WASHINGTON — Three U.S. citizens were killed in last week’s hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in Algeria, while seven Americans made it o...
ALGIERS, Algeria — Algerian bomb squads searched a gas refinery laced with mines today, looking for more explosive traps a day after the discovery of more bodies through...
Desert gas plant siege continues
ALGIERS, Algeria — About 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for three days into a bloody siege with Islamic militants at a gas pla...
Algeria tried to free hostages
ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria raided a remote Sahara gas plant today in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants with t...
LONDON — A 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education has been released from a Birmingham hospital to live with her family...