Geneva--The UN human rights chief said Saturday he had asked several countries to probe allegations of rape and killings by their troops in...
Geneva--The UN human rights chief said Saturday he had asked several countries to probe allegations of rape and killings by their troops in...
Sanaa--Saudi-led coalition warplanes pounded rebel positions across Sanaa overnight, only hours after the UN envoy to Yemen arrived in the rebel-held capital, residents...
Beirut--A series of barrel bombs dropped from Syrian regime helicopters killed at least 45 civilians and wounded dozens Saturday in the northern province...
Russian President Vladimir Putin Moscow--Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated FIFA boss Sepp Blatter on his re-election as head of football's governing body,...
Ross Ulbricht New York--The American convicted of masterminding the criminal website Silk Road was sentenced in court Friday to life in prison over...
Julie Bishop Sydney--Stronger regional cooperation is needed to counter the threat posed by foreign fighters returning from the Islamic State group in Syria...
Washington--US authorities investigating the mistaken shipment of live anthrax by a military lab have discovered another batch of the lethal bacteria dating back...
Quito--A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook parts of Ecuador early Saturday, though there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Ecuador's Geophysical Institute...
Cairo--Sixteen people were killed, all but three of them Egyptian policemen, in a collision between a police vehicle and a truck south of...
Maiduguri--Nigeria's military on Saturday repelled a Boko Haram attack on the key northeast city of Maiduguri that saw rocket-propelled grenades fired into homes,...
Pervez Rashid Islamabad--A Pakistani minister admitted on Saturday that a suicide bomber was responsible for an explosion outside Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium that killed...
Phoenix--Anti-Islam protesters -- some of them heavily armed -- faced off against religious rights demonstrators outside a US mosque Friday, in a tense...
FIFA leader Sepp Blatter Zurich--FIFA leader Sepp Blatter said Saturday he was "shocked" at the way the US judiciary has targeted football's world...
Beirut---A series of barrel bombs dropped by Syria's regime killed at least 45 civilians and wounded dozens in Aleppo province on Saturday, said...
Spes Caritas Ndironkeye Bujumbura, Burundi---The vice president of Burundi's election commission has fled the country, sources told AFP on Saturday, in a new...
Bujumbura, Burundi---The vice president of Burundi's election commission has fled the country, sources told AFP on Saturday, in a new blow to government...
Singapore---The United States on Saturday called for an "immediate and lasting halt" to reclamation works in disputed waters in the South China Sea,...
Montevideo---Two former Guantanamo inmates who were resettled in Uruguay will tie the knot in a joint ceremony with women they met in their...
