LA PAZ, Bolivia — Vilified by world leaders wary of his nuclear ambitions, Iran's president is turning to South American leftists who are embracing him as an energy and ...
Civilians hired for many different jobs
It's the other army. The private one, perhaps 160,000 strong in Iraq alone, armed, sometimes dangerous, often sloppy with tax doll...
BAGHDAD — A U.S. soldier pleaded not guilty today to charges of killing Iraqis and trying to cover it up by planting weapons on their bodies.
Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval, of ...
He says sanctions by U.N. are illegal
UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told world leaders his country will defy any further U.N. Security Council re...
GENEVA — Eight more cases of Ebola have been identified in Congo, raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have contracted the deadly illness, the World Health Or...
Mattel takes the blame for recalls
BEIJING — U.S.-based toy giant Mattel issued an extraordinary apology to China today over the recall of Chinese-made toys, taking the b...
SOROTI, Uganda — Fish swam alongside the dugout canoes residents were using to flee their flooded homes, riding the water gushing through the streets of this town in eas...
WASHINGTON — The fog of war keeps getting thicker.
The Iraqi government's decision to temporarily ban the security company Blackwater USA after a fatal shooting of civil...
Territory declared an enemy entity
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today the United States "will not abandon the innocent Palestinians in Gaza," shor...
MRSA offensive also targets sleeves
LONDON — British hospitals are banning neckties, long sleeves and jewelry for doctors — and their traditional white coats — in an effo...
