He battles to stay in power
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared more isolated today as he pressed his battle to remain in power while Iraqi...
Triplet panda cubs rest in an incubator today at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou in south China’s Guangdong province. China announced the birth of extremely rare ...
BAGHDAD — Iraq's new president has charged the deputy speaker of parliament Haider al-Ibadi with forming a new government in the next 30 days.
Fouad Massoum said on tele...
Both sides back at it in Gaza war
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes struck more than 20 targets Saturday in the Gaza Strip as militant rocket fire continued towa...
WHO makes declaration
LONDON — The World Health Organization today declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis brushed off his German Tuesday to greet some 50,000 German-speaking young people on a pilgrimage to Rome.
Francis followed the all-German pro...
MOSCOW — Edward Snowden's lawyer says the NSA whistleblower has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years.
Snowden last year was granted temporary a...
Move could hurt citizens
MOSCOW — Russia today banned most food imports from the West in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine — a sweeping move that will cost Western f...
Tens of thousands flee for safety
BAGHDAD — Iraqi militants from the Islamic State group overran a cluster of predominantly Christian villages alongside the country’s sem...
Gunman dressed in Afghan uniform
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. officials prepared today to fly the body of a two-star general slain in an Afghan “insider attack” back home, a...
