THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday endorsed Afghan plans to hold reconciliation talks with moderate Taliban members.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives Tuesday for a conference on Afghanistan at The Hague.
“We must support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to separate the extremists of al Qaeda and [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he is ready to work with U.S. President Barack Obama to overcome a recent low point in U.S.-Russian relations.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, front, says he wants to work with Barack Obama.
The Russian leader, writing an op-ed in The Washington Post ahead of Thursday’s G-20 summit in London, said he [...]
High winds and heavy seas capsized a boat filled with African migrants heading for Europe off the coast of Libya Monday — with more than 200 feared dead, the International Organization for Migration in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday.
A group of 227 migrants sits on a fishing vessel in Malta last month after [...]
A Maryland woman involved with a group described as a religious cult pleaded guilty in the starvation death of her son, but insisted that the charges be dropped when he is resurrected.
Under terms of her plea agreement, Ria Ramkissoon’s charges will be dropped if her son rises from the dead.
The condition was made a [...]
NEW DELHI, India — Cloaked in a traditional flowing red and saffron Tibetan robe the Dalai Lama took a deep breath as he began to express his gratitude to the country that took him in as a refugee 50 years ago.
The Dalai Lama says he is grateful for the care and support he has [...]
PARIS, France — Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for the workers said.
Caterpillar’s French staff say they are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs.
It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened [...]
A Polish navy aircraft on a training flight crashed Tuesday on Poland’s northeastern coast, and the four service members aboard are feared dead, navy spokesman Lt. Gregory Lyko told CNN.
The crew of the Bryza twin-turboprop transport plane was practicing landing with only one engine, Lyko said.
The crash occurred around 5 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) near [...]
By the time the police officer kicked the door in, it was too late. Kerby Revelus was holding his 5-year-old sister, Bianca, and while the officer watched, he dragged a kitchen knife across her throat with such fury that he decapitated her.
Samantha Revelus, 17, had called 911 for help after her brother attacked his [...]
Pop star Madonna and her adopted son met with the young boy’s biological father in Malawi as the singer awaited a court decision on whether she could adopt a girl from the same country, her publicist said Tuesday.
Madonna holds her adopted Malawian son, David Banda, in 2007.
Liz Rosenberg said in a statement [...]
LONDON, England- Football fans are often prepared to make huge sacrifices for the love of watching their teams play.
Matthew Gerrard (right) enjoying the convivial atmosphere of Borussia Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park.
Take Matthew Gerrard. The 33-year-old lives in Kent, in south-east England, yet regularly makes the eight-hour round trip to watch Borussia Dortmund in Germany’s top [...]
