Former hurricane could get stronger
LES CAYES, Haiti — Tropical Storm Ernesto battered Haiti, claiming at least one life, then menaced Cuba today as it followed a track t...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Violence in Iraq left nearly 50 people dead today in a suicide car bombing and clashes between Shiite militia and Iraqi security forces, a brutal contrad...
Prime minister addresses tribes
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's prime minister urged hundreds of tribal leaders Saturday to join his efforts to end sectarian strife and terrorism,...
Subs adding to nuclear arsenal
JERUSALEM — With the purchase of two more German-made Dolphin submarines capable of carrying nuclear warheads, military experts say Israel ...
Sectarian killings have decreased
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A security operation was helping to curb an increase in violence in Baghdad in recent months after a surge of bombings a...
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation today into the killings of eight people in eastern Afghanistan during a raid that U.S. forces claime...
Recorders found among wreckage
SUKHA BALKA, Ukraine — Investigators today combed through the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a Ukrainian field durin...
WARSAW, Poland — Lech Walesa said Tuesday he has quit the Solidarity trade union that he founded and which helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe.
"I have given u...
MOSCOW — A Russian passenger jet with 171 people aboard crashed in Ukraine today after sending a distress signal, emergency officials said.
The Pulkovo airlines Tupolev ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli commandos who landed near the militants' stronghold deep inside Lebanon early Saturday, killing one soldier, in the ...
