DHAKA, BANGLADESH: The mayor of the Bangladesh municipality where a factory building collapse d killing more than 400 people was suspended from office on Thursday,
WASHINGTON: Around 100,000 people were chosen from several million Wednesday to get a head-start on a US Green Card, in what could be the last such annual lottery, slated to
LA PAZ, Bolivia: President Evo Morales acted on a longtime threat Wednesday and expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development for allegedly seeking to undermine Bolivia’s leftist government, and he
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies are showing renewed confidence that the momentum in the civil war is shifting in their favor, due in part to the rapid
SAVAR, Bangladesh: Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safety at work and the death penalty for the owner of a garment factory building that collapsed last week in the country’s worst
JERUSALEM: Israel’s military says soldiers have dispersed settlers and Palestinians who were throwing rocks at each other in the West Bank following the killing of a settler there. The military said dozens of settlers and Palestinians scuffled early
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Lawyers say a Pakistani court has banned former military ruler Pervez Musharraf from running for public office for the rest of his life. One of Musharraf’s lawyers, Saad
JOHANNESBURG: Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela made his first television appearance in almost a year on Monday, looking thin and frail in his Johannesburg home where he has been resting after a bout
KABUL, Afghanistan: A civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of the Afghan capital, soon after takeoff on Monday, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S.-led military coalition
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that his national securityteam has been receiving payments from the U.S. government for the past 10 years. Karzai confirmed the payments when