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PARIS — Last June, Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s domestic intelligence service, faced a decision: continue surveillance on a French Islamist who had been viewed as a potential threat…
THE OFFENSIVE Close call: ISIS fighters launched a major new assault in northern Iraq, but were ultimately repelled. The fighting took place about 30 miles from Irbil, the Kurdish capital,…
HAVANA — Anuja Agrawal jumped on the phone. President Obama had just announced that he would restore diplomatic relations with Cuba — and Ms. Agrawal, who runs a medical tourism…
WASHINGTON — With the Obama administration racing to negotiate the outlines of a nuclear deal with Iran by the end of March, aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel…
The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued the crew of a ship that was trapped in the Antarctic ice for nearly a week. The Antarctic Chieftain, a 207-foot Australian-flagged fishing vessel,…
“Last year was no easy ride for Hong Kong,” said the pro-Beijing leader in an official statement released Wednesday. “In the coming year, I hope that all people in Hong…
The number of civilians killed or wounded in fighting in Afghanistan climbed by 22 percent in 2014 to reach the highest level in five years as foreign troops concluded their…
A judge in New York has approved an agreement between the Teamsters union and the Department of Justice that ends the government’s 25-year anti-corruption oversight of the 1.4 million-member union….
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Greece is showing fresh signs of stress. GDP figures published last week showed the economy shrank in the final quarter of 2014. Government tax revenues are fast depleting, down almost…
“We want it to come back to an area that is safe. It is not too easy to detangle a 40 ton animal,” said Edward Lyman, the Large Whale Entanglement…
It’s not just ABC. Fox’s “Empire,” starring Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, is a runaway hit. For his part, Lee is understandably thrilled with the results, especially in light…
ISIS Under attack: ISIS fighters have launched a major new assault in northern Iraq. The fighting is taking place about 30 miles from Irbil, the Kurdish capital, and challenges Peshmerga…
Their chance discovery a few weeks ago led to a trove of nearly 2,000 gold coins that had languished at the bottom of the sea for about 1,000 years, the…
The travel site announced 332 winners of its annual Travelers’ Choice awards for beaches Wednesday. The awards are based on the quantity and quality of traveler reviews for beaches gathered…
The self-styled ‘Islamic State’ Group (ISIS or ISIL), the Arabic acronym for which is Daesh, is increasingly haunting the nightmares of Western journalists and security analysts. I keep seeing some…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge’s ruling halting the president’s executive actions on immigration did little to persuade either party in Congress to publicly back down from a budget standoff. Republicans…
Remember that time when you drew on your sister’s homework (textbooks included) and afterwards she still read your favorite bedtime story? Or that other time your brother gave your favorite…
LOS ANGELES — The golf calendar is stuffed fuller than a pro-am goody bag, with 43 PGA Tour events, including the four majors, plus the FedEx Cup playoffs. But…
Together they are members of what the Chinese press unkindly refer to as the “rat tribe”people who live underground in a warren of basements and air raid shelters in Beijing….
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A beagle wagging her tail a mile a minute has become America’s top dog. – The Skye finished second.
A family kayaking in Santa Barbara harbor in California on Saturday found themselves paddling with an extra passenger when a sea lion pup hopped aboard and hitched a ride. –…
Satellite images from late January analyzed by IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly show that China is reclaiming a significant amount of land at three sites in the Spratly Islands, in addition…
It’s unclear what kind of playing time he will get given that the Yankees have already announced another player, Chase Headley, will be their every day third baseman, the position…
The phrase “we’re red right now” indicates that a camera is recording. A second dashcam continued to record. Video of the April arrest shows officers stopping a vehicle being driven…
As for “Boyhood,” a favorite to win Best Picture, Richard Linklater’s 12 year opus comes in second to last with just $25 million. Best Actor box office winner: Bradley Cooper…
“That’s the kind of elitist, government knows best, top-down approach we’ve heard for years,” Walker said Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News. – “I have no problem answering the…
CAIRO — The Islamist-backed faction in Libya’s civil conflict said Tuesday that it had carried out its first airstrike, targeting opponents in the town of Zintan in an escalation of…