After two weeks of heated debate, liberal and conservative countries early Saturday approved a U.N. document to promote equality for women that reaffirms the sexual...
BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say a double bombing has killed seven people in a city north of Baghdad. Police officials say the attack took place...
WASHINGTON – U.S. sanctions against a Russian bank and the Kremlin’s inner circle have pinched Moscow, but if the goal is to get President...
MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that it hopes a monitoring mission in Ukraine will help ease the tensions in Ukraine. Ukraine...
Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in an early morning raid that was followed by a clash with angry protesters in a West Bank town on...
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian police arrested three suspected lslamic extremists after intercepting a bomb shipment that authorities said was intended to attack brothels. Among those arrested...
TRIPOLI, Libya – At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once a place where residents went to buy everything from...
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle and a major Russian bank that provides them support...
From satellites to binoculars, the hardware being used in the search for the missing Malaysian plane off Australia’s west coast ranges from the sophisticated to the...
MOSCOW—The Russian parliament’s lower house has endorsed the country’s annexation of Crimea. The Kremlin-controlled State Duma voted Thursday to allow Crimea to join Russia following a...