HORONOBE, Japan — Reindeer farms and grazing Holstein cows dot a vast stretch of rolling green pasture here on Japan's northern tip. Underground it's a different story.
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JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said it downed a drone launched by Gaza militants today, the first time it encountered an unmanned aircraft since the start of its offen...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today striking nearly 100 sites in Gaza and mobilizing t...
TBILISI, Georgia — Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died today at the age of 86.
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JOHANNESBURG — The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius resumes today after one month during which mental health experts evaluated the athlete to determine if he has an anxie...
BAGHDAD — An al-Qaida breakaway group’s formal declaration of an Islamic caliphate — or state — across the stretch of territory it controls in Syria and Iraq sparked cel...
WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama’s administration has taken the U.S. gay rights revolution global, using American embassies across the world as outposts in a stru...
Decision draws praise, criticism
WASHINGTON — After two decades of waffling, the United States on Friday announced its intention to join an international treaty banning l...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis condemned the legalization of recreational drugs as a flawed and failed experiment as he lent his voice to a debate that is raging from the U...
Country mulls new leadership
IRBIL, Iraq — The president of Iraq’s ethnic Kurdish region declared today that “we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq” as the country c...
