Talks set with Karzai, NATO
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday for talks with the country's leaders, as surging T...
Tanker freed after cash paid
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3...
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, warning against impulsive U.S. action in Iraq, said whether the struggling nation backslides into a cycle of violence partly dep...
UNITED NATIONS — Palestinian children are dying at a heavy rate in the Israeli-Hamas fighting — about one of every three persons killed, according to Gaza statistics.
As...
Airstrikes, rockets continue barrage
JERUSALEM — Israeli jets and helicopters bombarded Gaza today and Hamas responded with a barrage of rockets on two cities as both sid...
PARIS — Pirates freed 20 hostages aboard a Turkish freighter commandeered off the Somali coast, as nine captives on a French boat were released off southern Nigeria, the...
NEW DELHI — "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone.
The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lights a candle today while attending the Orthodox Christmas service at a church in Petrozavodsk, northwestern Russia. Christmas fa...
GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israel ordered a pause in its Gaza offensive for three hours today to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and a government spokesman sa...
GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israeli forces edged closer to Gaza's major population centers today and attacked new sites, including a U.N. school, claiming more civilian lives afte...
