Taliban holds 22 Koreans
KABUL, Afghanistan — A top South Korean envoy headed to Afghanistan today, scrambling to save 22 of his country's citizens held captive by Taliba...
U.S. links it to training in Iran
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military has noted a "significant improvement" in the aim of attackers firing rockets and mortars into the heavily fo...
Indonesians flee swaying buildings
MANADO, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia today, sending residents fleeing from swaying homes and hospitals, a...
Longtime ruler is still in poor health
CAMAGUEY, Cuba — Interim leader Raul Castro led tens of thousands of loyalists today in celebrations of Cuba's revolution, filling ...
Minority group demands changes
BAGHDAD — Iraq's largest Sunni Arab bloc said today it has suspended its membership in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition governmen...
SYDNEY, Australia — A dog that vanished two months ago has been found 2,000 miles from home, media reported today.
Rusty was to be flown home Thursday after being sent t...
Envoy speaks for Arab group
JERUSALEM — The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan began a historic visit to Israel today to formally present an Arab peace plan, saying th...
HAVANA — Eight American students graduated from a Cuban medical school on Tuesday and said they planned to put six years of education paid for by Fidel Castro's communis...
BAGHDAD — A revised U.S. military plan envisions establishing security at the local level in Baghdad and elsewhere by the summer of 2008, although it likely would take a...
Taliban wants prisoners freed
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban threatened to begin killing 23 South Korean hostages today if the government doesn't free insurgents hel...
