Lack of speaker ends 1st session
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Three months after elections, Iraq's new parliament was sworn in today with parties still deadlocked over the next govern...
They agree to U.S. talks
TEHRAN, Iran — A top Iranian official said today that his country was ready to open direct talks with the United States over Iraq, marking a majo...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark's top prosecutor said today he will not press charges against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad drawings that trigger...
Police: Children among victims
ISAHAQI, Iraq — U.S. forces bombed a house during a raid north of Baghdad early today, killing 11 people — mostly women and children, while...
Judge calls it a political speech, closes courtroom
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein testified today for the first time at his trial, calling on Iraqis to stop a bloody wav...
85 people killed in reprisal slayings
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Police in the past 24 hours have found the bodies of at least 85 people killed by execution-style shootings — a grue...
ARIEL, West Bank — Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, front-runner in Israel's March 28 election, pledged today to annex this Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank, a ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A former judge from Saddam Hussein's regime acknowledged sentencing 148 Shiites to death in the 1980s but insisted that they were given a proper trial an...
Iraqi leaders call for unity
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Police found the bodies of four men dangling from electrical pylons today in a Baghdad Shiite slum, hours after car bombs and...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch toxicologist today said he found traces of an unprescribed drug in Slobodan Milosevic's blood earlier this year, after the former Yugosl...
