Authorities in India announced Wednesday the arrest of a freelance journalist connected to an attack on an Israeli embassy car last month. The suspect has been identified as 50-year-old Syed Mohammad Kazmi, an India native who works for an unspec ...
Six British soldiers patrolling in southwest Afghanistan are missing and presumed dead in an explosion. British Task Force spokesman Lt. Colonel Gordon Mackenzie said the soldiers were on patrol in Helmand province on Tuesday when their armored ...
A Saudi diplomat died Tuesday evening after being shot outside his apartment in the Gulshan neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. According to a police official, Khalaf bin Mohammed Salem al-Ali was discovered around 1 a.m. Tuesday about 30 yards fr ...
An avalanche in northeast Afghanistan left a remote village buried in snow Tuesday. Local authorities say dozens of people have been confirmed dead and at least 6 people were injured.
WikiLeaks has released new e-mails written by a top official at the intelligence firm Stratfor, which counts several U.S. agencies as clients, in which the official says he does not believe American authorities buried the body of al Qaeda leader ...
Republic of Congo authorities continued working in conjunction with Mines Advisory Group (MAG) Monday to put a stop to loose ammunition exploding across Brazzaville. The ammunition was scattered across the capital on Sunday after a fire caused se ...
A former United States Marine convicted of espionage by an Iranian court will not be executed, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. The agency reported Monday Iran’s Supreme Court has annulled the death sentence for Amir Mirzaei Hekma ...
An argument between an American gym teacher and a Kurdish student at a Christian school in Iraq turned deadly Thursday when the student pulled out a gun hidden in his clothes. Sulaimaniya city authorities say 18-year-old Biyar Sarwar shot and kil ...
Authorities believe a deadly shooting at a NATO outpost in Kandahar province was retaliation for the burning of Qurans and other religious material at Bagram Airfield early last week. The shooting was carried by two gunmen; one an Afghan National ...
Suicide bombers retaliating against police for recent raids attacked a police station in northwest Pakistan Friday morning. Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf said the three bombers stormed the police station armed with assault rifles and grenade ...
Afghan officials say at least 12 people died and 27 others were wounded Friday in violent protests that began four days ago when NATO troops burned Qurans at Bagram Airfield north of Kabul. The demonstrations are happening at numerous locations a ...
Dozens of people died and hundreds of others were injured Wednesday when a train slammed into a platform at a train station in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The accident happened around 8:30 a.m. at Once Station. Authorities say at least 49 people wer ...
American journalist Marie Colvin, 55, and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed Wednesday morning in Homs, Syria. The two were at a make shift media center run by activists in the district of Baba Amr when a shell hit the building. Sev ...
Less than a week after seizing 15 tons of methamphetamine in Jalisco state, Mexican authorities have arrested a major meth producer for the Sinaloa drug cartel. The ministry of public security said intelligence work led federal authorities to Jam ...
A South Korean pastor and his wife have been arrested for beating and starving three of their children to death. According to police in the South Cholla province town of Boseong, the couple believed their children were possessed by demons because ...
A fire swept through a crowded prison in Comayagua, Honduras overnight, leaving at least 300 inmates dead. The blaze is believed to have been started around 11 p.m. by an inmate purposely setting his mattress on fire. Flames quickly spread throug ...
A bus plunged into a river in Indian-administered Kashmir Friday, leaving all but one passenger on board dead. The accident happened in a village near Jammu. Witnesses say the bus spun out of control while going around a sharp curve. Nineteen peo ...
Mexican authorities announced Thursday a massive drug bust in the western state of Jalisco. The Secretary of National Defense said a tip led to the discovery of 15 tons of methamphetamine in powder form on a ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga. The pow ...
After an increase in activity over the last several days, Indonesia’s Mount Lokon erupted Friday evening, prompting authorities to issue evacuation advisories. The eruption began around 8:20 p.m. According to the National Disaster Management Agen ...
For the second time in two days, a suspected U.S. drone stroke killed militants in Pakistan’s tribal region. Pakistani security officials speaking anonymously say four suspected Haqqani militants died Thursday in the North Waziristan town of Mira ...