Beirut--Regime troops shelled rebel-held villages in southern Syria Thursday, as a snowstorm slowed an advance led by Lebanon's Hezbollah near the Israeli-occupied Golan...
Beirut--Regime troops shelled rebel-held villages in southern Syria Thursday, as a snowstorm slowed an advance led by Lebanon's Hezbollah near the Israeli-occupied Golan...
United Nations, United States--Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed to the UN Security Council Thursday for action to halt Yemen's slide toward anarchy, warning...
Berlin--Germany's Angela Merkel was the first to concede after a Ukraine peace plan was reached in Minsk that "big hurdles" remain to silence...
Barcelona--A chemical accident at a factory in Spain on Thursday injured three people and cloaked large swathes of the region in an orange...
Islamabad,--Pakistan on Thursday said it had taken into custody 12 Taliban members in connection with a school massacre that killed 153 people in...
United Nations, United States--The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at choking off millions of dollars in earnings from...
Kinshasa--The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold a presidential poll in November next year, the election commission announced Thursday, after deadly protests erupted...
Riyadh--Saudi customs agents have foiled an attempt to smuggle in almost 3,000 live "ornamental" birds from Bahrain, official media reported on Thursday. "They...
Washington--The United States welcomed a brokered ceasefire in the 10-month war between Ukraine and pro-Moscow rebels Thursday, but said the deal must now...
Maiduguri, Nigeria--At least seven people were killed on Thursday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a crowded market in northeast...
Riyadh--Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a convicted Pakistani drug smuggler, bringing to 29 the number of executions in the first six weeks of...
Paris,--France's major TV and radio networks were formally rapped by the French broadcast regulator Thursday for serious "breaches" in the way they covered...
Caracas--The Venezuelan government's bank accounts at the Swiss division of HSBC, which were revealed in the "SwissLeaks" scandal, are "totally transparent," said the...
Cape Town--South Africa's parliament was under tight security Thursday ahead of President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation address -- but it was...
Bobigny, France--A Muslim party that aims to promote Islamic finance and overturn France's ban on wearing the veil in schools will take part...
Brussels--Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras talked up hopes of a deal on his country's rapidly expiring bailout on Thursday as he confronted EU...
Strasbourg, France--EU lawmakers approved a probe Thursday into suspect tax breaks that critics said had been watered down, as the Luxleaks scandal continues...
Relatives of the students who were shot Chapel Hill, United States--Muslim leaders called for calm after three students were killed by a gunman...
