
Musharraf heads to Pakistan amid death threats
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ended more than four years in self-exile Sunday with a flight to his homeland, seeking a possible ...

Pakistani cricket star is election wildcard
As Pakistan looks ahead to a national election later this spring, the biggest wildcard is shaping up to be cricket legend Imran Khan, who rallied at ...

Lebanese president accepts premier's resignation
Lebanon's president on Saturday asked the outgoing prime minister to stay on in a caretaking role, opening the way for what is expected to be ...

Morocco Islamists struggle with coalition rule
After just over a year in power, Morocco's Islamist-led government is struggling to fulfill the high hopes brought on by its election in 2011 on ...

Italy's Bersani tapped to form new government
Italy's center-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, was given the tough task Friday to form a new and viable government, which is badly needed to steer ...

Australian minister quits over party ballot fiasco
Another Australian government minister quit Friday in the fallout from a bungled leadership ballot that reinforced perceptions of a crisis in Prime ...
France's Sarkozy officially being investigated
A judge on Thursday filed preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy in a campaign finance case, formally placing him under ...

Russia searches hundreds of rights groups, NGOs
Russian prosecutors are conducting wide-ranging checks of hundreds of nongovernmental organizations, as part of what rights activists say are ...

Scotland sets date to vote on independence from UK
Scottish leader Alex Salmond has set Sept. 18, 2014, as the date for an independence referendum that could radically alter the shape of the United ...
Zimbabwe PM's party: 2 more staffers arrested
Zimbabwean police on Thursday arrested two more members of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office staff, said his party, raising the number ...

AP INTERVIEW: Jordan's king warns of Syrian unrest
Jordan is struggling under the burden of a half-million refugees from the Syrian civil war — a conflict that King Abdullah II fears could create a ...

Egypt: Judges recommend Brotherhood's dissolution
A panel of judges on Wednesday recommended the dissolution of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which President Mohammed Morsi ...

Debt-laden Italy struggles to find stable govt
Trying to break through weeks of political gridlock, Italy's president began sounding out parliamentary leaders Wednesday to see if they can form a ...

Germany: State ban on far-right party enough
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet decided Wednesday not to attempt a ban of the country's biggest far-right party but said it would support a bid ...
Pakistan to hold nationwide elections May 11
Pakistan will hold nationwide parliamentary elections on May 11, said a presidential spokesman on Wednesday. The vote is expected to produce the ...

Zimbabweans vote in favor of new constitution
Zimbabwe's electoral body said Tuesday that 94.5 percent of voters cast a ballot in favor of a new constitution that calls for a strengthening of ...
Ethics committee investigates Reps. Young, Andrews
The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is forming a special panel to investigate whether Alaska Rep. Don Young failed to report gifts on his ...

Former Bush lawyer fighting Kenyan election case
A former lawyer for President George W. Bush now representing the Kenyan prime minister in his battle to persuade the Supreme Court to order a new ...

Israeli government sends mixed signals on peace
Ahead of the arrival of President Barack Obama on a high-profile Mideast mission, Israel's new government on Monday sent mixed messages about pursuing ...

Pakistani Taliban withdraw peace talk offer
The Pakistani Taliban on Monday withdrew their offer of holding peace talks with the government, saying that the authorities were not serious about ...