NICOSIA- Denmark's premier, whose country is a key player in an international operation to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal, said Wednesday she was "cautiously optimistic" the timetable for doing so...
LONDON- Around 50 demonstrators gathered outside the Egyptian embassy in London on Wednesday, to call for Al-Jazeera journalists due to stand trial in Cairo to be freed. The 16 Egyptians and four...
UNITED NATIONS- UN chief Ban Ki-moon is convinced that Geneva peace talks are the best way to resolve the Syrian conflict and urges all sides to return to the table, his spokesman said Tuesday. Just...
TOKYO- A Japanese research institute Tuesday said it was probing its own study that promised a 'game changer' way to create stem cells, a feat hailed as revolutionary for the fast-developing field....
LOS ANGELES- A former American soldier jailed for raping an Iraqi teenager and executing the girl and her family in 2006 has died in an apparent suicide in prison, a spokesman said. Steven Dale...
DAMASCUS- The Syrian army recaptured on Monday an Alawite village in central Hama province where rebels "massacred" civilians earlier this month, state news agency SANA said. The Syrian Observatory...
OSLO, Pierre-Henry Deshayes- Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik threatened to go on hunger strike for better video games and other perks to alleviate his "torture"-like prison conditions, in a...
SEOUL- South Korea voiced shock and outrage Monday at the bombing of a tourist bus in Egypt that killed three of its nationals, and issued a travel ban for the Sinai region. The bomb tore through the...
PARIS, Fran Blandy and Pierre Marie Giraud- For three years during World War I, millions of soldiers holed up in a warren of trenches, fighting and dying in nightmarish conditions along a barely...
GENEVA, Nina Larson, Jonathan Fowler- Syria's faltering peace process ground to total deadlock Friday amid growing concern of complete collapse despite international pressure, as the death toll on...
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