LAUSANNE (SWITZERLAND): The United States and Iran are plunging back into negotiations in an effort to end a decades-long standoff that has raised the specter of an Iranian nuclear arsenal, a new atomic arms race in the Middle East and even a US or Israeli military intervention. Two weeks away fr

TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned supporters at a rally here Sunday that he and his Likud party may not win Tuesday’s election, a potentially dramatic fall for a consummate political survivor whose nine years in office transformed him into the public face of contemporary Israel.

RIYADH: The US embassy in Saudi Arabia said it had suspended consular services in the kingdom for two days due to "heightened security concerns", after warning of threats against Western oil workers. All services in Riyadh and at the consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran have been cancelled for Sunday

Yangon: At least 21 people were killed and 26 others reported missing after a passenger ferry carrying more than 200 people sank off the coast of western Myanmar, police said on Saturday. The “Aung Takon” went down late Friday after leaving the town of Kyaukphyu on its way to Sittwe in western

BERLIN — The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that female Muslim teachers may wear head scarves in school. The 6-to-2 ruling from the court in Karlsruhe stipulated that teachers may wear the head scarf so long as it does not cause disruption in the school. The decision comes amid growi

UNITED NATIONS : Major world powers have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift UN sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could make it harder for the US Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said. The talks between Britain

Five people have died and up to 25 people are feared trapped in rubble after a fire at a shopping centre in the Russian city of Kazan. The fire started in a first-floor cafe adjoining the Admiral centre on Wednesday and more than 600 people were cleared from the building. Part of the centre coll

Two police officers were shot during a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city's police chief quit following a damning justice report into his department. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters that a 41

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) — Searchers struggled Wednesday to find the seven Marines and four soldiers killed when a helicopter crashed, hampered by the same fog that plagued a nighttime training mission. A second helicopter turned back safely shortly before the wreck, which left debris wa

Pakistan’s largest city was tense on Wednesday after a pre-dawn raid by security personnel on the headquarters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Karachi, an official said. The headquarters located in Azizabad neighbourhood was also the residence of MQM chief Altaf Hussain who fled Karachi

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA: An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a tractor-trailer that according to an eyewitness got stuck on the tracks while trying to make a difficult left-hand turn on Monday. One of the train's cars toppled and the conductor and at least 54 others were injured. It was the th

WASHINGTON: A baby in the US state of Utah survived a car crash that killed her mother by dangling upside down in her car seat above a river's frigid waters for 14 hours, police said. A fisherman found the 18-month-old child and woman Saturday in a four-door car flipped over in the Spanish Fork R

SELMA, Alabama: America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," President Barack Obama said as he stood near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists whose beatings by police a half-century ago galvanized much of the nation against racial opp

WASHINGTON: Director John Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the CIA, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable and close espionage gaps amid widespread concerns about the US spy agency's limited insights into a series of major global developments. Brennan announced

A video posted on the internet on Wednesday showed Iraqi soldiers shooting to death at close range a captured child suspected to have fought with militants in the Diyala Province. The director of the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, Mustafa Saadoun, in an interview with Al Hadath News Channel,

DONETSK: Seventeen miners were confirmed dead and rescuers held out little hope for another 16 still missing after a blast at a coal mine in the rebel-held city of Donetsk near the battle front in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday. Mine officials said the explosion was most likely caused by gas an

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 224 passengers had to be evacuated after it skidded off the runway on landing at Kathmandu airport on Wednesday and ended up on grassland. Nepal aviation officials said no one on board was injured, although one witness described how terrified passengers leapt f

LOS ANGELES: US investigators launched dawn raids Tuesday on dozens of Los Angeles locations suspected of offering "maternity tourism" services for mostly Chinese mothers wanting to give birth in the United States. The raids targeted apartment complexes in the Irvine, Rancho Cucamonga, Rowland He