US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
June 20, 2013Talks aimed at ending the Afghan war took a hit when President Hamid Karzai suspended negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban.
Talks aimed at ending the Afghan war took a hit when President Hamid Karzai suspended negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban.
The Obama administration has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America wades into Middle East conflicts.
Barack Obama used a desert summit to present Chinese President Xi Jinping with evidence of intellectual property theft from his country.
Robert Bales’ will avoid the death penalty for the nighttime slayings in two villages, many of them women and children who were asleep in their villages.
Protesters have unleashed resentment against the prime minister, who many Turks see as an uncompromising figure with undue influence in every part of life.
Three people were being treated Saturday for a new respiratory virus that is alarming global health officials, in the first cases in Italy, the country’s health ministry said.
The coronavirus cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly trickling out of Saudi Arabia, where more than 30 cases have been reported.
Police shot, wounded and took into custody two men who hacked another to death with butcher knives Wednesday near a London military barracks.
Thousands gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the people who died in the collapse last month.
Ball State was one of 10 American universities selected by the Institute of International Education to help improve different areas in the Myanmar education system.
French lawmakers have legalized same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris.
A march to demand a recount in Venezuela’s contested presidential election turned violent Tuesday in the home state of the late President Hugo Chavez as the government blamed the opposition candidate for violent disturbances it said had claimed seven lives and left 61 people injured.
Justin Bieber wrote an entry into a guestbook at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, saying he hoped she “would have been a Belieber” if history were different.
VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia — He went from house to house in the village at dawn, cold-bloodedly gunning down his mother, his son, a 2-year-old cousin and 10 other neighbors. Terrified residents said if a police patrol car hadn't shown up, they all would have been dead.
Eight people have been charged in connection with the deadly nightclub fire in southern Brazil that killed 241 people earlier this year, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Amanda Knox left Seattle to study abroad in 2007, just another college student pursuing her interests in languages and literature.
Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw on Sunday and then hung them by their feet while some in a watching crowd chanted “kill them!”
World leaders sent in their congratulations and Catholics around the world were celebrating Wednesday after the Vatican announced the election of new pope.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles is set to announce he will run in elections to replace Hugo Chavez,.
The terror lasted less than two minutes: Smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 1,000 feet to earth. A farmer watched helplessly as tourists trying to escape the blazing gondola leaped to their deaths.
