KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president gave in to pressure from European diplomats and offered concessions today to defuse a crisis that has divided his country and left sc...
President Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at the North American Leaders Summit in Toluca, Mexico. Obama attended the one-day meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Ni...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis penned a new missive on the injustices of poverty Wednesday amid indications he is eyeing a major overhaul of the Vatican’s financial house b...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Pope Francis may be the head of the Vatican state, but he’s not giving up the right to travel as just another Argentine citizen.
The leader of ...
Protests break out in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Thick, dark smoke rose above the center of the Ukrainian capital amid the boom of police stun grenades today, as officers in...
BEIRUT — At least 51 people, including 13 rebels, died in a single day of Syrian government airstrikes and shelling of opposition-controlled districts of Aleppo, activis...
Afghanistan frees prisoners
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan released 65 accused militants from a former U.S. prison today despite protests from the American military, wh...
German, Swiss bishops give report
VATICAN CITY — New surveys commissioned by the Vatican show the vast majority of Catholics in Germany and Switzerland reject church teac...
Amanda Knox, ex-boyfriend convicted again
FLORENCE, Italy — Police today found Amanda Knox’s ex-boyfriend near Italy’s border with Slovenia and Austria, hours after he an...
Killing took place in 2007
FLORENCE, Italy — Few international criminal cases have stirred national passions as strongly as that of American student Amanda Knox, waiting ...
