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...
Acting leader gives his plans for borders
JERUSALEM — Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert presented a sweeping vision for Israel's future in interviews published Friday, sa...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Gulf investors, feeling scorched by what they see as an anti-Arab backlash in the U.S. Congress, will likely be wary of high-profile invest...
A woman with a voile over her head puts a face mask on her dog as she walks through a sand storm in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Friday...
Death believed heart-related
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for w...
191 people died in blasts
MADRID, Spain — Spain observed a low-key remembrance of the Madrid terror bombings on Saturday's second anniversary of the attacks, as a delegat...
BEIJING — Communist leaders have launched China's most ambitious initiative in decades, promising billions of dollars in social spending and farm aid to help the 800 mil...
