US Vice President Joe Biden's condemnation of Israel's plan to construct 1600 new housing units in East Jerusalem was welcomed on Wednesday by advocacy groups and analysts who called for Israel to be held accountable for actions that undermine peace ...
Photo: AP Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Washington with his own words, as he appeared at a news conference alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The fugitive Islamic militant killed by Indonesian security forces traveled to Indonesia from the Philippines within the last few months, police officals said on Wednesday, an admission that raised concerns about ...
CAIRO - Sheik Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Egypt's chief religious official and leader of Al Azhar, the oldest and most prestigious center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, died Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, ...
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STOCKHOLM - The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist who created it said Wednesday.
Campbell was allowed to meet Aung San Suu Kyi. And the detained Nobel Peace laureate was subsequently permitted to meet NLD party colleagues The US State Department said Wednesday that election laws announced by Burmese authorities "make a mockery" of ...
Haiti's President went to the White House yesterday with a vision of a Caribbean paradise waiting to be rebuilt after January's catastrophic earthquake - and a price tag that could rise to $14 billion (£9 billion).
A few days ago I commented on the House Foreign Affairs Committee passage of the resolution condemning the Armenian genocide. I generally sided with those who said that the resolution was a bad idea, on the ground that 1.
The Internal Security Act will allow Thai security forces to impose curfews, checkpoints and restrict the movement of protesters if things turn violent.
Carla Bruni has done little to end speculation about her relationship with Nicolas Sarkozy by giving a half-hearted response when questioned about whether her marriage "was forever".
(JTA) -- The European Parliament passed a resolution that said European Union states should "demand the implementation of the Goldstone report's recommendations.
The Roman Catholic Church in Germany ordered two separate investigations yesterday; the first into allegations of widespread sexual abuse in its institutions, and the second into whether Pope Benedict XVI knew about them when he was a bishop in Bavaria ...
KABUL—The Afghan Taliban's leadership has dispersed to cities across Pakistan to avoid arrest after the recent detention of senior militants, officials and militants say.
Photo: AP US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says US forces in Afghanistan may start handing over security responsibilities to Afghan authorities before the July 2011 target date.
ISTANBUL - The state power companies of South Korea and Turkey signed a preliminary deal here Wednesday aimed at building a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey.
