Unity is focus of Turkey trip
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Pope Benedict XVI called divisions among Christians a "scandal to the world" at a joint ceremony today with the spiritual...
RIGA, LATVIA — President Bush, under pressure to find a new blueprint for Iraq, meets Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki today in a high-stakes summit designed to find out h...
TALLINN, Estonia — President Bush said today that an al-Qaida plot to stoke cycles of sectarian revenge in Iraq is to blame for escalating bloodshed, and refused to deba...
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot and killed a Hamas-linked militant in a West Bank raid early this morning, endangering a day-old truce that stopped five months of Palest...
Rare radioactive substance kills Kremlin critic
LONDON — Scotland Yard detectives on Saturday traced the final steps of a former KGB spy turned Kremlin critic after offic...
Shiites attack, burn 6 Sunnis
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them...
VATICAN CITY — The pope's upcoming trip to Turkey will include a meeting with a Muslim cleric who was one of the first to denounce Benedict XVI for his remarks on Islam ...
Slain politician in Lebanon mourned
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese flooded downtown Beirut on Thursday to mourn a slain Christian politician and vent...
Risk of civil war intensifies
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two bombs killed 22 people in northern Iraq today as the government tried to tamp down violence and head off civil war a day...
BERLIN — At least six people are under investigation in an alleged terrorist plot to blow up a commercial aircraft, German prosecutors said Monday.
The six are believed ...
