Nigerian troops Sunday repelled Islamic extremists who attacked from four fronts on Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria, with several civilians killed by aerial bombs and grenades and mortar…
Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched through Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in the first major rally since mass protests last year. – Police had raised no objection to the march, though…
For the first time in more than a month, demonstrators peacefully took to the roads, many said, to make their voices heard and let their government and the world know…
Australian journalist Peter Greste left Egypt at about 4 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET) and is in the air, Egyptian Interior Ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif said. – Egypt’s…
Since then, the United States has provided advisers to the Iraqi military in its fight with ISIS and has bombed ISIS positions. But in an interview with CNN last week,…
The world No. 1 beat sixth-seed Andy Murray 7-6 (5) 6-7 (4) 6-3 6-0 in a nearly four-hour contest in Melbourne to become just the second man to claim five…
But in doing so, Kenji Goto suffered his own gruesome fateapparently becoming the latest foreigner to be decapitated by ISIS. A newly distributed video from ISIS appears to show the…
LONDON — The British parliamentary elections are less than 100 days away, and they are a mess — at least five parties in a fragmented system designed for two, and…
MADRID — At least 100,000 supporters of Podemos, the left-wing party that is threatening to overhaul Spain’s bipartisan party system, marched in downtown Madrid on Saturday in a show of…
But a controversial penalty decision in injury time handed Equatorial Guinea a lifeline. Spain-born striker Javier Balboa, who was once on Real Madrid’s books, scored and sent the game into…
The tagline: “We love Venezuela … for receiving foreigners like one of our own.” An inviting promotion except for the fact that the photo was taken on Wyss’ return to…
The AP and other outlets reported that ISIS released a video on Saturday that appeared to show the execution of Japanese reporter Kenji Goto, who had been held by the…
Though some reports point to an uptick in human trafficking around the Super Bowl, experts are increasingly denouncing the statistic as a “myth” that detracts from a reality in which…
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Footage produced by “Army SOS,” a group linked to the Ukrainian army, apparently shot on Jan.15, shows aerial views of the damage to Donetsk airport after recent fighting. ARTEMOVSK, Ukraine…
By James Mackenzie and Renee Maltezou ATHENS, Jan 31 (Reuters) – New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, striking a conciliatory note on debt talks after a turbulent start to office,…
Just a month into the year, and already the role of extremism in the Islamic faith has been at the center of heated debate. But while the attack on the…
(Reuters) – The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an unusual procedure when his co-pilot apparently lost control,…
Podemos, which means “we can,” held its “March for Change” at midday, filling the Spanish capital’s emblematic Puerta del Sol square and adjacent streets. It’s the same place where anti-austerity…
ROME — Italian lawmakers on Saturday elected Sergio Mattarella, a veteran politician and constitutional court judge, as the country’s president, a post that is expected to be redefined during his…
In a region beset by upheaval and misfortune, coal miners who take pride in their grit and self-reliance have found at least one silver lining in changes sweeping over their…
Since then, Goodell said he has visited shelters and spoken to abused women and saw the pain and despair that come to families when women are not valued. His mission…
The No. 1 resolution people make? Lose weight. (This is America, after all, where 69% of us are overweight and 35% are clinically obese, making us the second-fattest country in…
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we speak with economist Edward Hadas about the significance of Syriza’s…
Two pilots in a helium-filled balloon landed safely off the coast of Mexico early Saturday after an audacious, nearly 7,000-mile-long trip across the Pacific Ocean that shattered two long-standing records…
African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, an African Union official said Saturday. The move came after the council urged…
“#TwoEagles has LANDED SAFELY just off the coast of Baja Mexico,” Bradley tweeted at 6:30 a.m. (9:30 a.m. ET), This happy ending was historic, albeit not entirely surprising: Less than…
Outgoing heavy-caliber fire boomed incessantly, shaking the ground and rattling windows around the besieged town. Residents of Debaltseve, seemingly inured to the racket, listened impassively as they mustered at the…
The Argentinian prosecutor who was found dead after accusing the country’s president of conspiring to cover up the country’s deadliest terror attack was more afraid of fanatical government sympathisers than…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has underlined the refusal of Greece’s European creditors to consider forgiving part of the debt-ridden country’s rescue loans, though she stressed in an interview published Saturday…