BEIJING: China’s new leader Xi Jinping capped his rise Thursday by adding the largely ceremonial title of president, though he will need cautious maneuvering to
While the voting for the pope is billed as secret, with each cardinal guided only by his faith in God, the process is ultimately a closed-door exercise in consensus-building that
KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of Afghans watching thetraditional sport of buzkashi on Wednesday, killing seven people in the north of the country, officials
SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea’s first public, senior-level mention of South Korea’s first female president ended up being a sexist jab. The body that controls North Korea’s military complained Wednesday
BEIJING (AP) — All it took was a handwritten note from police to send Zhao Meifu to a labor camp for a year in China’s arid northwest. The farmer had
STANLEY, Falkland Islands: An overwhelming 99.8 percent of Falkland Islands voters have backed keeping their government just the way it is: a British Overseas Territory. Of the 1,517 valid votes cast, only 3
KABUL: A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed five American service members, officials said Tuesday. Monday night’s crash brought the total number of U.S. troops killed that day to
KABUL, Afghanistan: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagelencountered political tension with the Afghan president and a series of security problems during his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, but he met
PARACHINAR, Pakistan: A Pakistani government official says a roadside bomb blast has killed three soldiers in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border. Javed Khan, a local administrator in
BAGHDAD: Al-Qaida’s branch in Iraq claimed responsibility on Monday for the killing last week of 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards in western Anbar province. The brazen assault suggests