ROME (AP) — One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some buildings and sent residents running into the streets, eme…
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Group of Eight world leaders has warned North Korea that it faces more sanctions if it continues to threaten the stability of the region with provocative acts such as its failed long-range rocket launch in April….
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president has ordered authorities to free the country’s jailed former army chief, a man credited with ending the country’s long civil war but who later was imprisoned after challenging the president in electio…
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KENGTUNG, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks to end fighting with army troops in the country’s east, the latest reported deal between the new reformist government and various ethnic s…
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president began his second term Sunday and signaled he will maintain a China policy that has reduced tensions between the sides, offering Beijing little early hope of realizing its long-term goal of unification….
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CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the Europ…
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BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese coal miner has been rescued after being trapped underground for 17 days by an underground flood that killed at least 10 others….
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TORONTO (AP) — The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant has lost her bid to win the title….
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NEW YORK (AP) — A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the United States on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations….
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BANGKOK (AP) — Buddhist monks led prayers as tens of thousands gathered in Bangkok to mark the second anniversary of deadly clashes between soldiers and “Red Shirt” protesters….
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ROME (AP) — A bomb exploded outside an Italian high school named after the wife of an assassinated anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing one student and wounding at least seven others, officials said….
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say fresh clashes with al-Qaida fighters in the south have left at least 34 people dead, while a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed two militants….
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DUBLIN (AP) — Seven Irish republicans, including three relatives of a senior reputed Real IRA member and four others allegedly operating a forest rifle range, were arraigned Saturday on terror charges following a security sweep against militants p…
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BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb in the parking lot of a Syrian military compound killed at least nine people Saturday, the latest in increasingly frequent bombings in the country’s major cities to target the regime’s security services….
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A look at Afghan security issues to be discussed at the NATO summit in Chicago….
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It was what President Barack Obama called a “war of necessity,” a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As NATO’s mission here winds down nearly 11 years later, the insurgents remain undefeated, corruption run…
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, killing 13 people, police said….
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The NATO meeting in Chicago is a chance for alliance leaders to proclaim solidarity and promise success. But the two-day gathering that begins Sunday probably won’t resolve the underlying anxiety about sharing the burdens of defe…
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LONDON (AP) — A British auction house is selling artworks collected by Germany born photographer Gunter Sachs….
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ROSH HAAYIN, Israel (AP) — Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world’s first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?…
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KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest’s peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world’s highest mountain….
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BEIJING (AP) — The Canadian government says it is pleased that a high-profile Chinese smuggler who had been extradited from Canada has received a life sentence, and not the death penalty….
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MONTREAL (AP) — Quebec’s provincial government passed an emergency law Friday restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition hikes. Outraged students reacted by ca…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year’s end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-…
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LONDON (AP) — British officials have given their word: “We won’t read your emails.”…
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MADRID (AP) — Chaos in Greek politics and Spanish banking combined this week to underscore just how fragile Europe’s economy remains after an eviscerating austerity regime that has spawned unemployment, desperation and misery. And there is no resp…
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HAVANA (AP) — An exploratory oil well drilled off the coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, a spokesman for Spanish company Repsol said Friday….
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VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long- stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats sa…
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BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi’s laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution….
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli feminists on Friday welcomed a Supreme Court ruling they say will help enforce equal pay laws for men and women….
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MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Friday gave a senior government post to a tank factory worker who had offered to come to Moscow with fellow laborers to disperse opposition protests….
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MADRID (AP) — The level of bad loans on the books of Spain’s banks has risen to an 18-year high, the country’s central banker reported Friday, increasing concern for the stability of Spain’s financial sector and the country’s place in the fragile …
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CANNES, France (AP) — The breakout performance of the Cannes Film Festival so far is Aniello Arena’s turn as a Naples fishmonger who becomes obsessed with appearing on a “Big Brother”-style TV show in “Reality.”…
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbs seem poised this weekend to re-elect a reformist who arrested Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, rejecting a nationalist promising closer ties with Russia – in a sign that the troubled Balkan nation is edging away fro…
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said….
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LONDON (AP) — In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psycho…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of eight of the world’s biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe’s debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere….
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvians traumatized by years of guerrilla violence cheered in 1997 when government troops raided the Japanese ambassador’s residence to rescue hostages held for 126 days by leftist rebels….
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of eight of the world’s biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe’s debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere….
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of eight of the world’s biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe’s debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere….
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s President Thein Sein was resting at his home in Yangon on Friday after military doctors paid a house call but an adviser said his condition was “nothing to worry about.”…
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The head of the Miss World beauty queen franchise says she plans to travel to Fiji “as soon as possible” to address the problems that turned last month’s pageant in the island nation into a fiasco….
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TOKYO (AP) — A rocket has lifted off in Japan in the country’s first commercial launch of a foreign satellite – one from South Korea designed to monitor the environment….
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A crowded bus plunged into a river bank in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country’s deadliest road accidents….
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 70 Christian youths in the Philippines have chanted “Stop the Lady Gaga concerts” at a rally calling for the singer’s shows in Manila next week to be canceled….
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police filed charges Friday against a 20-year-old Boston University student who drove a minivan in a crash that killed three of his college classmates last week….
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CAIRO (AP) — The Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72….
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Olympic torch was passed to London – witnessed, appropriately, by hundreds of Greeks huddled under umbrellas….
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, Washington’s envoy to Israel said, days ahead of a crucial round of nuclear talks with Tehran….
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Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece’s Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany….
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