Afghan Earthquakes Kill 21, Destroy Homes

Two earthquakes shook eastern Afghanistan early Friday

As East and West Pull on Moldova, Loyalties and...

After nearly two decades of independence from Russia and Romania, Moldova’s...

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the...

'I've never heard anything so...

Tom Parfitt travelled to Tskhinvali, in a trip organised by the Kremlin, to...

11 Pirates Are Seized in Raid...

French forces detained 11 suspected pirates

Ship carrying 20 Americans...

Pirates attacked a U.S. cargo ship off the coast of Somalia carrying food aid to East Africa

Dozens dead in Italian...

Rescuers were digging through rubble with bare hands for survivors after a powerful earthquake hit central Italy...

Bill to OK travel to Cuba to...

A group of senators and other supporters will unveil a bill Tuesday to lift the 47-year-old travel ban to Cuba.

Trials of Khmer Rouge...

The first substantive sessions in the trials of former Khmer Rouge officials began Monday morning, 30 years after the...

New Status in Africa Empowers...

Forty years after he seized power in a bloodless coup d’état, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader once called...

U.S. Taking Steps to Control...

The Obama administration said Tuesday that it would move hundreds of federal agents to the country’s southern border to...

Sweden Says No to Saving Saab

The carmaker has fallen on hard times in a country where old-style Nordic socialism has fallen out of favor

Drug Cartel Violence Spills...

Tucson is coping with a wave of drug crime the police suspect is tied to the battles between Mexico’s drug cartels.

German rampage victims died...

Three teachers, 9 students among 15 people during 3-hour killing spree

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At A.I.G., the Brand Is Tarnished

The damage done to A.I.G.’s brand has competitors circling to snap up its...

Alaska volcano erupts

Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted four times overnight

Man survives plunge over...

Unidentified man apparently jumped in on Canadian side, authorities say

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Police said the police officer was shot in the head in Craigavon, near Belfast

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It was 50 years ago on Tuesday that 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama’s palace in Lhasa,...

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Pushing the Limit -A Knack for Hooking the Longest Rattlers

Favorable rattlesnake weather calls for temperatures in the high 70s

Pressure Rises on Banks to Take Aid From Britain

Britain’s government tightened its grip on another ailing bank Saturday