Rebels are seeking international help to help counter an attack that could mark a new direction in Syria’s war.
Solar Impulse 2 makes an unscheduled stop in Japan to await better weather for Hawaii leg.
Russia’s foreign minister accused the European Union of ethical breaches of diplomatic norms in news leaks.
Why the Vatican pays so much attention to the less-than-devoted communist nation.
The paternoster elevators are unusual — they do not have doors and do not stop at floors.
"Please bring me to France, fast, because I'm really, really tired," Isabelle Prime says in the short message addressed to the French president.
When the Islamic State burned a Jordanian pilot alive, it was the straw the broke the camel's back.
The secretary of state suffered a broken right femur. He will remain hospitalized in Geneva overnight.
Waiting in long lines for just about everything is an inescapable fact of life on the island.
The speedy prosecution of 49 people in the mob killing of a woman raises questions about fairness.
The list includes politicians and other high-ranking people, whose reactions ranged from anger to satisfaction.
Mr. Katriuk was said to have served with the SS in Eastern Europe during World War II.
Medicine and vaccine shortages have spread as hospitals halt vital services during months of bombings.
Soltan had been on hunger strike for more than a year when Egyptian authorities deported him to the U.S. on Saturday.
Activists say 85 people, mostly civilians, died in the strikes.
Shiite militias are taking the lead in the battle for the Iraqi city of Ramadi, in a sign of lessened U.S. influence.
The killing of 42 people by the police in Michoacan hit one poor community hard.
Basic issues, including monitoring access to nuclear sites, still must be ironed out before June 30.
The U.N. human rights chief says in a new report that lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people are victims of “pervasive, violent abuse, harassment and discrimination” in all regions of the world and cites hundreds of hate-related killings.
A small cruise ship sank overnight in China’s Yangtze River during a storm, leaving at least one person dead and nearly 450 people missing, most of them elderly, state media said Tuesday. Ten people were rescued, the state media reports said.
South Korea on Tuesday confirmed the country’s first two deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as it fights to contain the spread of the virus that has killed hundreds of people in the Middle East.
A solar-powered plane attempting to circle the globe without a drop of fuel made an unscheduled landing in Japan to wait out bad weather.
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