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Lawyer: Bahrain overturns activist's Twitter case
A Bahrain judge on Thursday overturned a conviction against a prominent human rights campaigner for posting alleged anti-government comments on social ...
Feared Mexican Zetas Leader Z-40 now top target
A split in the leadership of Mexico's violent Zetas cartel has led to the rise of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, a man so feared that one rival has ...
Russia: We have Syrian guarantees on chemical arms
Russia is working closely with the Syrian government to ensure that its arsenal of chemical weapons remains under firm control and has won promises ...
YPF CEO appeals for investors, prepares strategy
The CEO of Argentina's state-controlled oil company says he'll personally defend any investments made by foreign partners willing to place long bets ...
Kenya to disarm tribes to prevent deadly clashes
Kenya's government will conduct a countrywide operation to disarm all communities with illegal weapons, it announced Thursday, a day after at least ...
South Africa mourning upended by fiery politician
A fiery politician cast out of the ruling party Thursday hijacked the main memorial service for 34 striking miners killed by police, to accuse ...
Beyond oil battle, sanctions hit Iran's merchants
A Tehran shoe factory is abandoned by its European leather suppliers. Iranian cooking oil manufacturers are operating at nearly half capacity because ...
Ethiopia: Longtime leader to be buried next month
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died of an unknown illness earlier this week, will be buried on Sept. 2, the government spokesman said ...
Organizers meet to create $100b climate fund
A new global fund on climate change that aims to channel $100 billion a year in aid to poor countries selected officials from South Africa and ...
Painting of Christ disfigured in Spanish town
A small Spanish town is trying to figure out what to do with a 20th-century painting of Christ that has been disfigured by a local artist who was ...
Balkans region hit by worst drought in decades
Wildfires are destroying forests, rivers are being reduced to a trickle, crops are wilting on the scorched farmland and electricity supplies are ...
The attraction and risks of hot air balloons
The hot air balloon that crashed in Slovenia was one of the largest of its kind in the world. Tourists who are willing to pay more than $100 each to ...
Thousands of Afghan refugees in limbo in Pakistan
Abdul Karim walked for nearly 12 hours to cross the border into Pakistan and escape the warlords who were raining rockets on his neighborhood in the ...
Turkey probes possible Iran link in bombing
Turkey has said it is investigating whether another country, possibly Iran, was involved in an explosion that killed nine people near Syria earlier ...
Official: nuke plant flaws different from 1979
Cracks in the steel reactor vessels of two nuclear plants in Belgium were found in 1979, three years before they came online, but they are unrelated ...
Uganda faces pressure to pull troops from Somalia
A Ugandan activist group is threatening demonstrations if the country's military doesn't withdraw its troops from Somalia, where they form the bulk ...
Pakistan summons US diplomat to protest drones
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has summoned a senior U.S. diplomat to protest recent drone strikes targeting militants in the country's northwest tribal ...
German state cracks down on neo-Nazis
More than 900 police officers raided homes and clubhouses of suspected neo-Nazis in a crackdown in a western German state on Thursday, seizing ...
Naked prince pictures raise security questions
They were embarrassing, silly, and raunchy. But were they a security breach? A day after nude photographs of Prince Harry ricocheted across the ...
Pakistan: 26 die from heavy rains, flooding
Pakistani officials say heavy monsoon rains that triggered flooding in the country's north have caused at least 26 deaths. An official at the State ...
Lawyer: Breivik won't appeal if declared sane
Anders Behring Breivik's defense lawyers say the confessed mass killer won't appeal if he's sentenced to prison but he will challenge any ruling that ...
Tropical Storm Isaac takes aim at Hispaniola
Tropical Storm Isaac took aim at the Dominican Republic and Haiti Thursday and it was expected to gain strength after drenching tiny islands in its ...
Report: Greece ready to cash in on islands
Afraid of investing in Greek bonds? Invest in a Greek island instead. Greece's prime minister is quoted Thursday in an interview in France's Le Monde ...
In Venezuela race, Chavez has apparent money edge
Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles typically runs his presidential campaign by jogging through Venezuela's small towns, reaching out to supporters ...
UK retailers are among the losers during Olympics
A business survey suggests that British retailers were among the losers during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Confederation of British Industry's ...