WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged Arab states to make immediate gestures toward normalizing ties with Israel in a bid to promote prospects for...
WASHINGTON, Dan De Luce - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned Congress he would veto funds for more F-22 fighter jets as well as other changes to his proposed defense budget, his...
BEIJING - A group of Chinese intellectuals called Tuesday for the release of a Muslim Uighur scholar who was reportedly detained for links to unrest in China's Xinjiang region that left up to 180...
ROME - Italy has demanded an apology from the UN refugee agency in an angry response Tuesday to a complaint that a group of African would-be immigrants were mistreated.
European Affairs Minister...
LONDON - A British junior minister was to resign his post from embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government but would remain as an adviser, officials said Tuesday.
Ara Darzi, a practising...
UNITED NATIONS, Gerard Aziakou - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday pressed Myanmar to free political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, to ensure "credible and legitimate" polls next year as the...
ROME - Italy's centre-left opposition turned down a membership request Monday from one of the country's best-loved comics who has declared his intention to lead and reform the struggling party....
LONDON, Katherine Haddon - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown fended off calls Monday to send more troops and equipment to Afghanistan after the blackest day yet for forces there, with eight...
LONDON- Michael Jackson was killed by a band of greedy hangers-on, his sister La Toya alleged in interviews with British Sunday newspapers.
The King of Pop's sister spoke about her younger...
RAFAH, Patrick Moser - Anwar, 15, can't read or write, but says he's good at tunnel work. He needs a new job as Israeli planes bombed his workplace, one of hundreds of smuggling tunnels on Gaza's...