Exercise held in Persian Gulf
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran test-fired more long-range missiles overnight in a second round of exercises meant to show that the country can defend i...
BEIJING — Negotiators from six nations resumed talks today on North Korea's nuclear disarmament, with hopes of laying out a program for what could be a lengthy attempt t...
BAGHDAD — It's been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq — a dry spell that has devastated the country's crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the sa...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles today during war games that officials said aimed to show the country can retaliate against any U.S. o...
Climate-change strategy hailed
TOYAKO, Japan — President Bush today hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a broad climate-change strategy, saying in a valedic...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The United States and leaders of the Czech Republic agreed Tuesday to place a radar system in this former Soviet satellite that would warn of lo...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Men armed with pistols and shotguns attacked a police guard post outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul today, sparking a gunbattle that left three at...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today he sees no possibility of a war between his country and the United States or Israel.
He also pr...
RUSUTSU, Japan — The Group of Eight leading industrial nations today endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against g...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul today, killing 40 people in the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's ca...
