It's part of prisoner swap with Egypt
BEITUNIA CHECKPOINT, West Bank - Israel released 159 Palestinian prisoners today as a gesture to the new Palestinian leadership.
In...
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II offered Christmas wishes Saturday for a world where he said timid but hopeful efforts at peace Iraq, the Holy Land and several tragic co...
Vote result may be challenged
KIEV, Ukraine - Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko celebrated his insurmountable lead today in the re-run of Ukraine's presidential electio...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A video posted by an Iraqi insurgent group Sunday purported to show last week's suicide attack at a U.S. base in Mosul, with a fireball rising from a whi...
A street at Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand, is littered with damaged vehicles and debris after the area is hit by a tsunami Sunday. The most powerful earthquake in 40 ...
MOSUL, Iraq - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on a Christmas Eve mission to cheer up the troops in Iraq, promised them that no matter how bleak things might look t...
Westerners quiet about celebration
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - It's beginning to look a little bit like Christmas in Saudi Arabia, where Islam is the only accepted religion an...
PARIS - French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush to win re-election.
In a four-page accou...
He's also critical of Iraqi elections
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia and the United States remain partners and had warm words for President Bush...
Deadly blast puts bases in spotlight
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military was re-examining security measures at bases across Iraq today, a day after saying an attack that ki...
