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Syrian civil war shakes Damascus-Beirut ties
The Syrian civil war has spilled over into Lebanon, bringing with it sectarian street clashes, mob violence and general government paralysis in Beirut
Mexico religious cult refuses to allow teachers in
Adherents of a religious sect in western Mexico are physically blocking school teachers from entering their walled community, setting up one of the ...
Egypt's Islamist president to visit US next month
Egypt's Islamist president will visit the United States next month, an aide said Wednesday. The visit could serve as a step toward cementing Egypt's ...
Greek bailout extension depends on debt report
Greece's premier embarked Wednesday on a diplomatic push to earn his debt-crippled nation more time to complete reforms and retain access to bailout ...
Syrian forces, rebels in major Damascus clashes
Syrian regime forces shelled two central Damascus districts Wednesday before troops backed by tanks swept through to carry out house-to-house raids, ...
Afghans: Foreign spies at root of insider attacks
The Afghan government blamed foreign spy agencies for a rising number of killings where government soldiers and policemen have gunned down their ...
Norway vows 'humane' conditions for mass killer
Those expecting Anders Behring Breivik to spend the rest of his days alone in a cramped cell will be disappointed when the far-right fanatic receives ...
30 children in Germany injured in bus crash
German police say at least 30 children have been injured, some of them seriously, after a bus they were traveling in overturned on a southern highway.
Police: 48 dead in Kenyan clashes over land
Hundreds of farmers attacked a village, killing at least 48 people in southeastern Kenya in an escalation of ongoing clashes between the farming and ...
Official: Tourists and pilots die in Kenya crash
A plane crashed minutes after it had taken off in the famed Masai Mara game reserve killing four people, including two German tourists, officials said ...
Israeli minister wants Palestinian leader's ouster
Israel's foreign minister urged the international community to help oust Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas whose policies he called "an obstacle to ...
Storm prompts US to delay 9/11 hearings at Gitmo
An approaching storm prompted the U.S. military to place its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under an alert Wednesday and cancel several days of ...
3 Jordanian Paralympic squad members out on bail
Two Jordanian Paralympic power-lifters and a trainer were granted bail Wednesday after being accused of sexual assault in Northern Ireland. The three ...
S&P: Possible Spain bailout wouldn't hurt rating
Rating agency Standard & Poor's says a Spanish request for a bailout to help it through the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis probably would not harm ...
'Carrie's War' author Nina Bawden dies at 87
British writer Nina Bawden, who wrote children's classics including the World War II story "Carrie's War," died Wednesday. She was 87. Her son, Robert ...
Belarus bans opposition leader from election
Election officials in authoritarian Belarus have banned a prominent opposition leader from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections. A district ...
SAfrican gets life for killing white supremacist
A black farmworker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the brutal murder of South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche in ...
Germany pursues Nazi charges against 87-year-old
The German special prosecutors' office that pursues Nazi-era crimes said Wednesday it was recommending charges be filed against an 87-year-old man on ...
2 survive to tell of Sri Lankan abduction squads
The politician knew something was amiss when a suspicious white van pulled alongside him at a Colombo park and four men got out, pretending to ...
Japan's PM meets protesters, won't stop reactors
Japan's prime minister met for the first time with leaders of weekly anti-nuclear protests Wednesday but rejected their demand that two recently ...
In crisis, Greece rounds up immigrants
Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, ...
Turkish Cypriot tycoon guilty on charges of theft
A British jury has found Turkish Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir guilty of 10 charges of theft from his collapsed Polly Peck conglomerate, 22 years after ...
Turkey blames Kurd rebels for blast
The Turkish government blamed a Kurdish rebel group Wednesday for a bomb attack that killed nine people near the Syrian border, amid concerns by ...
19th-century wall collapses at Rome tourist site
Part of an early 19th-century wall near a panoramic terrace overlooking an ancient square in Rome has collapsed. No one was injured when about 9 ...
Witnesses: Tajik troops open fire on protesters
Tajikistan government troops opened fire Wednesday on a crowd protesting the unexplained killing of an influential local leader in an eastern town, ...