
Serbia mourns 13 killed in shooting rampage
Serbia held a national day of mourning Wednesday as police searched for possible motives in the Balkan nation's worst peacetime shooting massacre, ...

Mideast feminists reject Europe topless protests
Bewilderment, scorn, resentment. Women's rights activists across the Middle East are reacting with everything but joy to topless demonstrations in ...
Czech power company settles dispute with EU
European regulators say they have accepted measures put forward by the major Czech state-run power company CEZ to settle a dispute over its dominant ...

Gunmen kill Pakistani policeman during polio drive
Gunmen shot to death a policeman protecting a team of female polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks ...
Sweden sends diplomat to Belarus after teddy stunt
The Swedish Foreign Ministry says it is sending a diplomat to Belarus after its ambassador was expelled last year following a Swedish advertising ...
Kerry meeting with Syrian opposition in London
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with Syrian opposition leaders and Russia's top diplomat a day after saying the U.S. could soon step up ...
Neo-Nazis established network inside German jails
German authorities say they are tightening security measures after discovering a neo-Nazi network inside the country's prisons. The network, which was ...
Greece: Police station attacked in gold protest
Authorities say a police station has been attacked in a village in northern Greece where frequent protests have broken out against plans to develop ...

Cuba turning over Florida couple and children
Cuba on Tuesday said it will hand over to the United States a Florida couple who allegedly kidnapped their two young sons from the mother's parents ...

Senate showdown vote on gun curbs set for Thursday
The Senate's top Democrat has set Congress' first showdown vote for Thursday on President Barack Obama's gun control drive as a small but mounting ...
UN: Central African Republic is very volatile
The political and security situation in the Central African Republic is highly volatile, the humanitarian situation is "extremely dire," looting and ...

Egypt's pope sharply criticizes president
Egypt's Coptic Christian pope delivered an unprecedented direct criticism of the Islamist president Tuesday after a mob attack on the church's main ...

Iran says 37 killed in earthquake in south
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials ...

Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq
Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq and the most powerful rebel extremist group in Syria have officially joined ranks against President Bashar Assad to forge ...

Greece signals faster state reforms
Socialist coalition partners in Greece's government said Tuesday that overhauling the country's bloated public sector is crucial for the success of ...

Pope launched sainthood case for Argentine priests
It was time for Mass, but no one opened the church door. When a teenager climbed through a window to investigate, he found five bloodied bodies, ...
Egypt's revolutionary cleric suspended over sermon
A Muslim cleric who became known as "the preacher of the revolution" for his sermons in Tahrir Square during the uprising against ousted President ...
Biden: Threats to block gun bill 'embarrassing'
Vice President Joe Biden says he refuses to believe a small group of senators will block a vote on gun legislation. The vice president says it would ...
SAfricans: Did Thatcher help or hinder apartheid?
Nineteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africans are still passionately divided over whether Margaret Thatcher helped or hindered the cruel ...

Protesters accuse Putin of murdering Polish leader
About 200 Poles chanted accusations against Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, accusing the Russian leader of murdering their own President Lech Kaczynski in ...

Yugoslav wars left population heavily armed
The wars from 1991 to 1999 as Yugoslavia broke up took up to 200,000 lives, turned millions into refugees and left much of the region's people ...

Republicans debate message, battle bad messengers
National Republican leaders made waves recently with a dim view of the party's future if it fails to expand its core support beyond white males and ...