Nguyen Ba Thanh HANOI--Vietnamese authorities on Wednesday denied widespread rumours that a popular senior communist party official had been poisoned with radioactive material...
Nguyen Ba Thanh HANOI--Vietnamese authorities on Wednesday denied widespread rumours that a popular senior communist party official had been poisoned with radioactive material...
DUBAI--Rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged authorities in Bahrain to release a Shiite opposition chief whose detention sparked protests and widespread condemnation. Amnesty...
KIEV--Ukraine said on Wednesday three of its soliders were killed in a spate of Orthodox Christmas Eve attacks by pro-Russian insurgents in the...
BEIJING--China and Venezuela will step up co-operation this year, Presidents Xi Jinping and Nicolas Maduro said in Beijing Wednesday as falling oil prices...
JAKARTA--Indonesia said Wednesday it had found the tail of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the sea with 162 people on board, raising...
LONDON--On the murky edges of the global shipping industry, decades-old, rusting ships such as those used to smuggle hundreds of people into Italy...
GENEVA--It's enough to set cuckoo clocks bonging... Growing and selling marijuana may soon become legal in once staid Geneva, a year after Switzerland...
DHAKA--Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted a ban on cargo boats in the world's largest mangrove forest, imposed in the wake of last month's major...
GENEVA--Experts will gather in Geneva this week to review progress on possible vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organization said...
Sri Lankan President COLOMBO--Sri Lanka's election commission said Wednesday it is investigating claims that troops are being deployed in the Tamil-dominated north before...
Zak-ur-Rehman Lakhvi ISLAMABAD--Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday reimposed a detention order on the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, court officials said, the...
Paddy Ankunda KAMAPALA--Uganda's mililtary confirmed Wednesday that top Lord's Resistance Army rebel Dominic Ongwen was in the custody of US special forces in...
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop United Nations, United States---Mali's foreign minister told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that an international force could help...
United Nations, United States---A report by the OPCW chemical watchdog has concluded "with a high degree of confidence" that chlorine gas was used...
Antonio Muchanga Maputo---Police in Mozambique arrested a senior official of Renamo, the country's largest opposition party, Tuesday on charges of inciting violence amid...
Washington---The United States Tuesday condemned a strike by Libyan aircraft that bombed an oil tanker off the Islamist-held port of Derna, killing two...
Hong Kong---Hong Kong will take the next step in its contentious political reform process Wednesday when the government unveils new proposals for how...
London---British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are set to thrash out his plans for renegotiating Britain's relationship with the...
