GENEVA, Nina Larson- International prosecutors said on Tuesday it is still possible to go after those responsible for war crimes in Syria despite Russian and Chinese efforts to block cases being...

DAMASCUS- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad announced an unprecedented prisoner amnesty on Monday, less than a week after his re-election, the most wide-ranging since the revolt against him began....

BAGHDAD- A car bomb attack and a suicide blast Sunday killed 18 people at a Kurdish political party's office north of Baghdad and 11 others died in other violence in Iraq. Militants have launched...

PARIS- Scientists have created a molecule that glows red or blue depending on drug levels in blood -- the basis for a prospective home test to prevent patients accidentally overdosing, they reported...

WASHINGTON- US National Security Advisor Susan Rice is defending her comments that Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, freed in a prisoner swap after five years' captivity with the Taliban, had served "with...

BRUSSELS- A young Belgian man badly hurt in an attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels died of his injuries on Friday, the public prosecutor's office said. The Belgian, who is in his early 20s, is...

RABAT- Morocco has launched an inquiry into the death of a young woman whose body was found in a garden in Fez and who may have been buried alive, a police source said Tuesday. "She was discovered on...

CAIRO- Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted Egypt's first freely-elected leader, will be sworn in as president on Sunday after he overwhelmingly won last week's election, state media...

MADRID- Irish author John Banville, best known for his crime novels written under the pseudonym of Benjamin Black, has been awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias literature award, the prize...