A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island’s Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth...

Russia has now turned into a “criminal state”, according to the man who was once its leading foreign investor. Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital was...

One person dies in Argentina every 28 hours as a result of repression by state security forces, according to a report by the Committee against Police and Institutional...

At least seven people have been killed in two bomb blasts in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, police say. The explosions happened within minutes in Nalbari,...

To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage this summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police...

Few here doubt that the case began with something threatening: in June 2007, 27 hand grenades and fuses were found in the attic of a house in an Istanbul slum....

Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren’t met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders...

Now, he and hundreds of other successful farmers are replanting trees as part of an ambitious initiative to reduce deforestation. Their goal — to set aside...

The leftist Venezuelan leader praised Carlos — whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sánchez — as “one of the great fighters of the Palestinian Liberation...

Sabar Mina is cloaked in a light green shawl tinged with dirt. She is holding an empty flour sack that she plans on filling with firewood. Her eyes are soft and kind,...

Rwanda is set to succeed in its bid to join the Commonwealth this week despite serious concerns over its human rights record, according to a senior source close to the...

A dark cloud continues to gloom over the media industry in Uganda as government of the National Resistance Movement (NRM,) headed by dictatorial General Yoweri...

The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army...

It is with deep shock and regret that we have learnt that 24 inmates have died of Cholera at the Kamiti Maximum prison. It is regrettable and unfortunate if such a...

Armed operation against militants in Orakzai agency has frightened civilians in Hangu city since last morning, as told by locals of Hangu. The operation has reportedly...

Silvio Berlusconi faces more damage to his reputation with claims that he was directly linked to Mafia bosses and new disclosures about his private life in the memoirs...

Iran has begun a large-scale war games air defensive aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack. An air force commander is boasting his country can deter...

There’s nothing like the threat of war to mobilize the support of a nation. So perhaps it’s not surprising that posturing over a soccer war with Algeria may...

The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as...

Two fire-red birds swooped screeching through the forest, flared their yellow and blue wings and alighted on the upright trunk of a dead palm tree. In the green...