NEW DELHI (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan bears a special responsibility to help get to the bottom of last week's terror attacks in India, and she used a condolence trip to India on Wednesday to increase pressure on India's ...
OTTAWA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will address the nation on Wednesday night as speculation heightens that he will ask for a temporary suspension of Parliament to try to prevent the opposition from taking power.
By Christopher Stern Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss won a second term and blocked Democrats from gaining a 60-seat Senate majority by defeating challenger Jim Martin in a runoff election.
POZNAN, Poland (AP) - Barack Obama's upcoming presidency has infused a sense of hope in the current UN climate talks that the United States - one of the world's biggest polluters - may soon emerge as a global leader in saving the planet from ...
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Afghanistan unexpectedly joined dozens of nations signing a treaty banning cluster bombs in an effort that supporters hope will shame the US, Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and ...
By Suttinee Yuvejwattana and Rattaphol Onsanit Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Thailand’s main international airport restarted limited flights after anti-government protesters ended an eight-day blockade following the removal of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat.
By Barry Newhouse The top US military official is in Pakistan in an effort to reduce tensions with India following last week's terrorist attack in Mumbai.
By STEVEN ERLANGER BRUSSELS - The NATO secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, strongly defended on Wednesday the alliance’s decision to begin “a conditional and graduated reengagement” with Moscow, saying that “Russia is such an important factor in ...
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The first commercial flight in a week arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday as anti-government protesters ended their siege of the country's two main airports, declaring victory after Thailand's prime minister was ousted by a court ...
NEW YORK (AP) - It must have been easy for the terrorists, rampaging through Mumbai, to find the Chabad Jewish center where they slaughtered six people.
MUSCAT, Oman (AP) - Passengers on a luxury cruise liner attacked by pirates in the dangerous waters between Yemen and Somalia said Wednesday they were surprised by the assailants' boldness and described hearing the Pop!
By Robert Birsel ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff urged Pakistan on Wednesday to investigate all possible links between the Mumbai attacks and Pakistani groups and to broaden its campaign against militants.
By John Hughes Provo, Utah - Even before Barack Obama's foreign-policy team has been sworn in, an ugly new problem has been added to the president-elect's international to do list.
By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington - Much as the 9/11 terror attacks quickly focused the Bush administration on its relations with Islamabad, last week's terrorist assault on Mumbai (formerly Bombay) only ...
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama met Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme on Wednesday, the latest leg of a European tour which has upset Beijing and led to the postponement of a China-EU summit.
Israeli riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades at Jewish settlers occupying a building in the centre of the West Bank town of Hebron, detaining 15 extremists as the Government vowed to evict them.
Politicians and the press have protested police's decision to raid Parliament and arrest Conservative MP Damian Green. By Ben Quinn | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor London - In the 2-1/2 years since 52 London commuters were killed by ...
By Robert Windrem and Aram Roston, NBC News Some US and Indian counter-terrorism officials are asking if India’s most notorious reputed mobster -- thought to run a worldwide crime ring -- had a hand in the slaughter that devastated Mumbai last week.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in New Delhi as Washington seeks to ease tensions in the region following the deadly Mumbai attacks.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates signals he'll forge ahead with two priorities for the Obama administration: accelerating withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
Asian stock markets mostly rose Wednesday after a rebound on Wall Street, but pervasive concerns about the dismal outlook for the world economy limited gains.
Authorities turned off the taps in Zimbabwe's capital after it ran out of purifying chemicals and feared contaminated water would spread a cholera epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives since August.
The U.S. warned India before last week's brutal attacks in Mumbai that terrorists appeared to be plotting a mostly waterborne assault on the city, a senior Bush administration official said Tuesday.
Nigerian food and drug regulators on Tuesday updated the death toll to 34 in an outbreak of fatalities among infants given a locally-made teething formula tainted with a toxic agent.
Frustrated by rules preventing military doctors from treating Iraqis, two U.S. soldiers began arranging for sick children to receive free medical treatment abroad.
In an isolated spiritual community in Virginia, 13-year-old Naomi Scherr was an especially adventurous kid, dyeing her hair purple, then shades of blue and teal.
Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand declared victory Tuesday and said they will end their occupation of the country's two main airports after the prime minister was forced from office.
The United Nations expressed concern Tuesday about overcrowding and grave human rights violations of detainees in Iraqi custody € in one case, 123 men crammed into a single cell.
