ANEYOSHI, Harumi Ozawa- Weathered stone markers recalling the deadly tsunamis of centuries past dot the sawtooth coastline of northeast Japan, serving as silent warnings from the ancestors. One of...

TRIPOLI, W.G. Dunlop- Moamer Kadhafi's regime reacted angrily Friday to a decision by world powers to provide funding to Libya's rebels, asserting that plans to tap assets frozen abroad were...

SOFIA- UN chief Ban Ki-moon deplored on Friday the failure to agree to a Gulf-mediated plan aimed at ending months of political unrest in Yemen. "It is unfortunate and frustrating that all these...

VIENNA- The International Press Institute on Friday demanded that Syria release Al-Jazeera television journalist Dorothy Parvez, detained since she flew into Damascus on April 29. "If she is being...

RABAT- Morocco arrested the main suspect and two other Moroccans for their role in a bomb attack in the city of Marrakesh that killed 16 people, many of them foreigners, last month, an interior...

DARAA, Rana Moussaoui and Sammy Ketz- Syria pulled its troops from a 10-day clampdown in Daraa on Thursday and deployed them in another protest hub as activists vowed a "Day of Defiance" to press...

CAIRO- Hundreds of diehard supporters of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak clashed with his foes in central Cairo on Wednesday leaving dozens injured, a security official told AFP. Mubarak...

DAMASCUS- Scores of tanks massed Wednesday at a Syrian town that has been a hotbed of protests for seven weeks, activists said as UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged President Bashar al-Assad to end a deadly...

WASHINGTON- Pills to treat asthma are less often prescribed than inhalers, but a British study published in the United States Wednesday suggests they work just as well and are easier for patients to...