President Hugo Chavez said he ordered two F-16 jets to intercept a U.S. military plane that twice violated Venezuelan airspace on Friday in what he...
Appeals court upholds life sentence for 9/11 conspirator
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, lost a bid on...
Blast rocks Shiite parade in Karachi, at least 43 killed
Pakistan’s interior minister appealed for calm on Tuesday in the country’s commercial capital Karachi, where shopowners surveyed gutted premises a day after a suicide bomber...
Ahmadinejad calls for more pro-government rallies
Iranian authorities continued arresting opposition members on Tuesday, as hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed Western governments for supporting anti-government protests since Sunday in which at...
Israel approves new funding for settlements
The Israeli cabinet approved listing some Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as "national priority zones," entitling the communities to millions of dollars of...
Five held with plane full of weapons from N.Korea
Thailand detained five men after they made an emergency landing in Bangkok with a cargo plane from North Korea full of heavy weapons, ministers and officials...
