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A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in Mogadishu. African Union and Somali troops pushed al-Shabab insurgents out of the capital in August 2011, fostering a relatively secure peace that Mogadishu hasn't seen ...
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the latest confrontation between the ruling party and Togo's increasingly active opposition. Demonstrators were gathering to protest the death of an opposition member, who died in jail. The demonstration was the second this week, following a women's march on Tuesday in which ...
A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and Patti Smith have sent, urging Russia's courts to free Maria Alekhina and the other Pussy Riot still in prison, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. In ...
An American man is suspected of killing a family of four and is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday. The bodies of the four victims — identified by neighbors as a married couple and their two sons — were found by firefighters who ...
Two brown bears have been released into a special sanctuary after being held in a 20-square-meter cage almost their entire lives to amuse visitors at a Kosovo restaurant. Ari and Arina, both 10 years old, were taken to their new, much larger home, by the international animal charity group Four ...
Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday. The Palestinians in Syria are particularly vulnerable because of ...
Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons. The statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's reluctance to negotiate a new nuclear arms deal with Washington. ...
The EU has something important to say about its proposal to regulate olive oil on restaurant tables: Uh, never mind. Last week, the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, said that restaurants should only be allowed to serve oil to customers in non-refillable bottles with proper content labeling. The refillable ...
The Socialists, who finished second in Bulgaria's election this month, were asked to form a new government Thursday, after the front-running party was unable to. The Socialists have pledged to create a Cabinet of technocrats led by a former nonpartisan finance minister, Plamen Oresharski, and to quickly improve the economy ...
A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police said. The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, came the same day as fighting in the restive ...
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