WASHINGTON: Rights activists across the United States held a series of protests on Thursday demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay as a hunger-strike at the
CAIRO: An Egyptian official says the president has ordered withdrawal of complaints against journalists for allegedly reporting rumors. Presidential spokesman Ehab Fahmy said Mohammed Morsi ordered cancellation of the complaints
LONDON: Western and Middle Eastern nations trying to help the Syrian opposition in its war against President Bashar al-Assad will meet in Turkey on April 20, a U.S. official said
HELSINKI (AP) — Vladimir Putin, banned in Finland? Finnish police say the Russian president’s name was mistakenly placed on a secret criminal register that could have gotten him arrested at
LONDON: Margaret Thatcher, one of the seminal political figures of the 20th century, will be remembered for her unswerving belief in the virtues of free market capitalism and the vices
South Korea: North Korean workers didn’t show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani military officials say 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants have been killed in four days of fierce fighting in a remote valley in the northwest. The
Hollywood icon Annette Funicello has died at age 70, Disney confirmed today on Twitter. The former Mouseketeer passed away from complications due to her multiple sclerosis, a disease she battled
Baroness Thatcher has died at the age of 87 following a stroke, her family announced today. As tributes poured in to the former premier, it was announced that she will