BEIRUT (AP) - Israel signaled a return to "business as usual" on Monday, a day after its aircraft struck targets in Syria for the second time in 48 hours in an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war. (Source... [Full Article]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in South Korea on Friday on an unusual diplomatic journey, traveling directly into a region bracing for a possible North Korean missile test and risking that his presence alone coul... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church's first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
PARIS (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed for home Wednesday after making clandestine journeys to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he delivered a stern warning to Iraqi leaders about Syria and sought to patch up differences with Afghanistan... [Full Article]
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) - The top U.N. envoy to Myanmar on Sunday toured a central city wracked by the country's worst Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, calling on the government to punish those responsible for a tragedy that left dozens of co... [Full Article]
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) - The top UN envoy to Myanmar toured a central city Sunday destroyed in the country's worst explosion of Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, calling on the government to punish those responsible for a tragedy that left do... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two rockets exploded in a southern Israeli town near the Gaza border on Thursday, the second day of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the Jewish state, Israeli police said. One of the rockets damaged the yard of an Isr... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Friday made a surprise visit to a Rome hospital to cheer up a fellow Argentine, a cardinal who had a heart attack the day the pontiff was elected. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's young leader urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Kore... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a bicycle struck outside the Afghan Defense Ministry on Saturday, killing at least nine Afghan civilians as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited Kabul, officials said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]