A leading international watchdog yesterday accused the militant Hamas group of abducting, torturing and killing Palestinians during the war in the Gaza Strip last year, saying some of the actions amount to
Islamic State extremists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks targeting the Iraqi army in western Anbar province, killing at least 17 troops in a major blow to government efforts to
Britain’s first all-Conservative government in two decades unveiled its plans for power yesterday, including laws to hold a referendum on European Union membership, give Scotland more autonomy and toughen immigration
Swiss federal prosecutors opened criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, throwing FIFA deeper into crisis only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested and 14
Sir Francis is the first man to race around the world solo with only one port of call, Sydney. About 250,000 well-wishers cheered and sang, welcoming home the 65-year-old adventurer
Flight 953 took off from Malabo in Equatorial Guinea on May 2 and was cruising toward Douala, Cameroon’s largest city, when the pilot rerouted the Boeing 777 to avoid a
A French farmer is on trial for killing a suspected truffle thief with two blasts from a pump-action shotgun. Laurent Rambaud, 37, told police he was guarding his truffle patch around
CHINA The International Monetary Fund no longer believes China’s tightly controlled currency is undervalued, an IMF official says, a stance that might help Beijing in its wrangling with Washington over
They’re ubiquitous in Asia, swarming the bustling streets of Bangkok, New Delhi and Beijing. Now, a company that manufactures tuk-tuks — the three-wheeled motorized rickshaws that have moved the masses
Iraq yesterday announced the launch of a military operation to drive the Islamic State group out of the western Anbar province, where the extremists captured the provincial capital, Ramadi, earlier this
Recovery teams are set to resume looking for the 12 members of two families who authorities say are missing after a rain-swollen river in Central Texas carried a vacation home
An Iranian security court yesterday held the first hearing in the closed trial of an American-Iranian reporter for The Washington Post who has been detained for more than 10 months,
He was taken ill in the early hours of this morning at his house in New Delhi. He had returned from holiday at a hill station near the capital the
Sleep-deprived and smiling, the 28-year-old singer-TV host arrived at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport draped in a Swedish flag and waving the Eurovision trophy. “I’ve longed for this moment for 10 years, and
Cristian Gomez, a player with Argentine club Atletico Parana, died on Sunday after collapsing during a second-division match. The Argentine Football Association match supervisor for the game, Ramon Gomez, said
PAKISTAN The son of Pakistan’s president escapes unharmed from a roadside bomb attack that killed three people and wounded 15. AFGHANISTAN A suicide truck bomb blast at the gate of a
The Islamic State group’s takeover of the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi has prompted criticism from Defense Secretary Ash Carter and raised new questions about the Obama administration’s strategy to defeat the extremist
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced yesterday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a U.S. supporter, capping the dramatic downfall of a man who
Born to an electrical engineer, and later a precocious and dashing young man who attained an Ivy League education, John Nash seemed destined for a life of stunning success. That he achieved,
The Minister of Fuel and Power, Philip Noel-Baker, told the House of Commons rationing would be abolished because two American companies had agreed a deal to supply oil in return
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