JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel gave the final go-ahead Thursday to build nearly 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements, saying the construction was a...
JOSEPH WEBER, The Washington Post (The Washington Post)—China’s effort to choke dissent didn’t begin 25 years ago Wednesday with the Tiananmen Square massacre. But that’s...
RAPHAEL TENTHANI, Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The new president of Malawi was inaugurated Monday after an election that was disputed by his predecessor. President Peter Mutharika said...
BISWAJEET BANERJEE, Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Two teenage sisters in rural India were raped and killed by attackers who hung their bodies from a...
ABUJA, Nigeria (The Washington Post) — When Secretary of State John F. Kerry announced early this month that the Obama administration was rushing a team of...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Supreme Court president Joaquim Barbosa, the only black judge to ever serve on Brazil’s high court, announced Thursday that he will...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader vowed on Thursday to “do everything possible to bring our daughters home,” referring to the mass...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Corrupt police and other government employees willing to break rules for bribes are weakening Kenya’s ability to prevent...
LOUISE WATT, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is targeting popular smartphone-based instant messaging services in a monthlong campaign to crack down on the spreading of...
JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — When Thailand’s military staged a coup last week, Phil Koenighaus was on a beach enjoying the debauchery of the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The brightly painted Haitian minibuses known as tap-taps are getting even more colorful in the lead-up to the World Cup. Although...
(ABC News) – Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman facing a death sentence for marrying a Christian, has given birth, Amnesty International confirmed to ABC...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Militants in Mogadishu on Saturday carried out a multi-pronged, complex attack against the country’s parliament building involving a...
JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Accusations of bribes from drug traffickers, spying and email hacking have turned Colombia’s presidential election into an ugly...
GRANT PECK, Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The general who led the military takeover of Thailand is known as an ardent defender of the monarchy, an...
HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Cairo court on Wednesday convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement, sentencing him to three years in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month,...
(The Washington Post) – They stood in the sun, sweating. They clutched homemade guns. Some had poisoned-tipped spears. Others wore camouflage or brandished amulets. All...
MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington that...
(Bloomberg) – A rogue general in Libya who’s confronting Islamist militias and seeking to shut down the country’s parliament gained support in the east of...
(CNN) — Nigeria and four neighboring countries will share intelligence and border surveillance in the hunt for more than 200 Nigerian girls still held by Boko Haram,...
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Protesters and police clashed in Sao Paulo Thursday, as demonstrations against the World Cup and rallies calling...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong started incinerating its nearly 30-ton stockpile of confiscated ivory on Thursday to show it’s serious about cracking down on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered sanctions Tuesday against five people tied to sectarian violence in the Central African Republic and cleared the way...
DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pfizer Inc.’s chief executive acknowledged Tuesday that a potential merger with AstraZeneca would lead to job losses — but...
