Tehran--Iranians will vote for a new parliament on February 26 next year, the elections watchdog said Wednesday, in a contest expected to mark...
Tehran--Iranians will vote for a new parliament on February 26 next year, the elections watchdog said Wednesday, in a contest expected to mark...
Aden--Four Yemeni soldiers guarding oil installations were killed Wednesday during a gunfight with tribesmen in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, a military official...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon--Four African armies, from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, are currently directly engaged in the fight against the Nigeria-based insurgent group Boko...
Harare--Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Wednesday denounced as "obscene" a planned bash to celebrate President Robert Mugabe's 91st birthday at a time the...
Cairo--An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to one year in jail for insulting Islam and promoting atheism on a Facebook page, his...
Copenhagen--Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt led hundreds of mourners Tuesday at the funeral of a Jewish man, who was among two people killed...
Berlin--A German court ruled Wednesday that a 76-year-old smoker, facing eviction over the smoke and stench of full ashtrays emanating from his home,...
Kinshasa--Pygmy militia attacks against Bantu villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week claimed the lives of 27 people, the United Nations...
Rio de Janeiro--At least eight people died and five others were injured Wednesday in a Rio suburb when a bus hit an electric...
Beirut--The Syrian regime is ready to suspend aerial bombardment of Aleppo to allow a humanitarian ceasefire, a UN envoy said, even as government...
London--Five months after Scotland voted against independence from the rest of the United Kingdom, the Scottish government has seceded -- at least online....
Geneva--UN experts on Wednesday joined a chorus of calls for Tehran to halt plans to execute a young Iranian Kurdish man who was...
Jerusalem--The Israeli Supreme Court overruled Wednesday a ban on a firebrand Arab-Israeli MP and an extreme right-wing Jewish activist from running in next...
Abuja--Nigeria on Wednesday claimed to have killed more than 300 Boko Haram militants in a counter-offensive, as Chad pushed into rebel-held areas but...
Rio de Janeiro--A German tourist died from stab wounds after resisting assailants who tried to rob him as the Rio carnival wound down,...
Tunis--Four Tunisian police were killed in a pre-dawn Wednesday attack by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants near the Algerian border, with the prime minister vowing...
Islamabad--At least two people were killed and three others injured in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Islamabad, officials said, in a...
Geneva--Swiss authorities on Wednesday raided the offices of British banking giant HSBC's Swiss unit as part of a money laundering probe into the...
