BEIJING — China's campaign to vilify this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and sabotage the award ceremony showed signs of backfiring today, as criticism of Bei...
HAIFA, Israel — Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel today in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire...
Thousands of motorists stranded overnight
BERLIN — Freezing temperatures and often blinding snowfall shuttered airports across Britain today, delayed flights across Europ...
STOCKHOLM — Sweden's Supreme Court today upheld a court order to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning over rape and sexual molestation allegations.
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SEOUL, South Korea — A supercarrier sent jets into overcast skies today in U.S.-South Korean military drills that North Korea warned could spark war, but signs of diplom...
Memos help shed new light
BEIJING — China knows less about and has less influence over its close ally North Korea than is usually presumed and is likely to eventually acc...
Live-fire training led to last attack
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military announced provocative new artillery drills on the front-line island shelled in a deadly ...
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court today convicted Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's longtime foreign minister, of terrorizing Shiite Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war, sentencing him to ...
More believe in climate change
CHERSKY, Russia — During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 ye...
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — The United States and South Korea prepared for war games Sunday as South Koreans demanded vengeance over a deadly North Korean artillery...
