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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as climate and energy issues at Germany's chancellery today, part of a tour aimed at lifting the first-term senator's international standing.
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Muslim-Serb friendship is a thing of the past in the town where Radovan Karadzic's army massacred more than 7,000 men and boys. >>
Khartoum reaches out to allies and rivals as it seeks to have the U.N. quash or delay a genocide indictment against President Bashir. >>
President Talabani objects to a provision delaying voting in Kirkuk, the northern city that Kurds seek to incorporate into their semiautonomous Kurdish region. >>
Leaders of all political stripes seem to believe Obama is committed to the Jewish state's security -- even from Iran. >>
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Responding to charges that it has stifled free speech, Beijing plans to allow demonstrations at three parks, at a distance from main Olympic venues. But organizers will need permission. >>
The 'green bomber' youths who have terrorized the opposition in behalf of President Mugabe's party worry about reprisals. >>
Radioactive particles spewed from a pipe at a French nuclear reactor on Wednesday, slightly contaminating 100 employees, a spokeswoman for the national electric company said. >>
He says his brother, the president, was right to keep silent. Moscow denies it's planning to refuel nuclear bombers on the island. >>
French lawmakers took a step toward ending the country's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week, passing a bill that gives companies greater latitude to extend working hours. >>
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is pushing North Korea hard to accept terms to verify the dismantling of its nuclear weapons program after breaking a four-year hiatus in Cabinet-level talks with the communist state. >>
A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it. >>
The former Bosnian Serb leader was living openly in a Belgrade suburb when he was captured. He has been working as an alternative healer, his identity concealed by an alias and a bushy white beard. >>
A Palestinian driving a backhoe loader rams a bus and cars, injuring six Israelis before he is fatally shot. >>
How do you say 'to go' in French? Superstar chef Bocuse says he 'saw the opportunity to feed thousands of people going to the cinema' -- and others in France are following his lead. >>
The outcome means a nuclear cooperation deal with the U.S. may proceed. Observers say the parliamentary motion turned into a display of backroom deal-making and political theater. >>
After visits to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Democratic presidential candidate plans to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. >>
Though a team that retrieves and processes remains is glad to have much less to do these days, its members work to stay ready. >>
Prosecution and defense lawyers painted broadly conflicting pictures of Salim Ahmed Hamdan on Tuesday, with the government vowing to prove that the former driver for Osama bin Laden remained a trusted aide and confidant through Al Qaeda's most heinous crimes. >>
DNA tests for the first time have confirmed that a baby was stolen from her mother and adopted for profit in Guatemala. >>
A Jewish group asked the Ukrainian government on Wednesday to stop construction on the site of a grave containing the remains of an estimated 26,000 victims of the Holocaust. >>
The lawmakers object to a secret vote on conditions for provincial elections calling for sharing power in Kirkuk. The move reduces chances of holding those elections this year. >>
A powerful earthquake that sent boulders tumbling onto a national highway, injured more than 100 people across a wide swath of northern Japan, officials said today. >>
Libya has halted all of its oil deliveries to Switzerland and barred Swiss ships from its ports to protest the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva, a state-run shipping company said today. >>
Deals on oil drilling and arms shipments mark the Venezuelan president's whirlwind trip to Moscow, as he seeks an ally in his anti-U.S. stance. >>
Zimbabwe: EU to step up sanctions on Mugabe / Afghanistan: A Taliban leader surrenders / Mexico: 5 kidnapped S. Koreans freed / Italy: Court rejects jeans defense >>
As Dolly strengthens, officials warn that the Rio Grande Valley's levees could fail. >>
Nepal's former rebels, who won the most seats in April's national assembly elections, said Tuesday that they would not form a coalition government because lawmakers did not elect their candidate for president. >>
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