Jerusalem---From polls and parties to slogans and seats, here are some of the key issues in Israel's March 17 general election. What is...
Jerusalem---From polls and parties to slogans and seats, here are some of the key issues in Israel's March 17 general election. What is...
Jerusalem---Israel uses a proportional voting system that fosters pluralism but has also led to repeated failures to form stable government coalitions. Instead of...
Beirut---Despite Western and Arab hopes he would be consigned to the dustbin of history, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad enters his fifth year of...
Athens---There are tears in their eyes and the last hugs are achingly long. No one wants to let another smart young person leave...
Beirut---Syria's war has killed more than 210,000 people, uprooted half the population and left the country in ruins since erupting four years ago....
Sydney---AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes said Thursday he was not giving up on finding more bodies from one of the airline's jets that crashed...
Tokyo---The UN will hold a once-in-a-decade meeting on disaster risk reduction this weekend, with policymakers gathering in tsunami-struck Japan after warnings that the...
Sydney---An Australian teenager who militants claimed carried out a suicide attack in Iraq was under surveillance and his passport had been cancelled, officials...
Eellen Pao San Francisco---The woman behind a Silicon Valley sex discrimination case spent Wednesday under fire from an attorney trying to sink her...
Vatican City---Two years after Pope Francis swept into the Vatican vowing to shake up the Church, his opponents are playing a waiting game...
Berlin---Greece has railed against what it sees as German dominance since the 2010 start of the eurozone financial crisis, but antagonism between the...
Sydney---Australia's unemployment rate eased to 6.3 percent in February as fewer people looked for jobs, data showed Thursday, but economists warned the labour...
Richard Glatzer Los Angeles---Richard Glatzer, the co-director and co-writer of "Still Alice," for which Julianne Moore won a best actress Oscar last month,...
Tikrit, Iraq---Iraqi forces have entered Tikrit, dodging bombs and sniper fire in search of their biggest victory yet against embattled jihadists who tried...
Beijing---The number of criminal defendants acquitted in China fell last year, figures from the country's top court showed Thursday, even as authorities pledged...
Beijing, China---China convicted and sentenced 712 people for terrorism, separatism and related crimes last year, the country's top court said on Thursday, saying...
Lahore, Pakistan---Pakistan on Thursday hanged a man convicted of murdering three people, taking to 25 the number of executions carried out since the...
Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova Washington---The United States upheld Wednesday the deportation order of a former Salvadoran defense minister accused of grave human rights...
