Six government employees were drafted to pose as new Canadians for a citizenship ceremony broadcast on a conservative news channel in Canada. Updated: Feb 02, 11:10 AM
At least one of the three members of an Afghan family found guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another woman intends to appeal the conviction, the man’s lawyer said Monday. Updated: Feb 02, 09:37 AM
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday he told Barack Obama he was profoundly disappointed after the U.S. president called to tell him the administration rejected a plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Updated: Jan 23, 10:05 PM
Cuban President Raul Castro flew to Caracas on Friday to attend a meeting with other allies of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who was at the airport for the arrival. Updated: Feb 03, 10:06 PM
Mexico’s former ruling party has filed a complaint accusing federal prosecutors of leaking information tying three of the party’s former governors to a drug money-laundering investigation. Updated: Feb 03, 09:36 PM
A Colombian rebel commander who has been detained in Venezuela since May was taken to a military hospital because of health problems, Venezuelan authorities said Friday. Updated: Feb 03, 08:06 PM
Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos’ devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn’t watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium _ this nation’s temple to the sport. Updated: Feb 03, 05:36 PM
The Obama administration on Saturday called for stepped up U.S.-European cooperation to isolate tyrannies like the Assad regime in Syria, promote democracy in the Arab World and beyond and repair damage from the global financial crisis. Updated: Feb 04, 04:05 AM
Russia’s foreign minister sternly warned Washington Saturday that any attempt to put a draft resolution on Syria to vote at the United Nations would lead to "scandal," a blunt warning that Moscow is prepared to use its veto power. Updated: Feb 04, 03:36 AM
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling on Europe and the United States to do more together to defeat tyrannies, promote democracy and repair the damage from the global financial crisis. Updated: Feb 04, 03:36 AM
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is reassuring Europe that it remains central to U.S. defense interests, even as the Obama administration is withdrawing two of the four Army brigades stationed on the continent. Updated: Feb 04, 03:06 AM
Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country’s largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall. Updated: Feb 04, 03:36 AM
Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratcheted up violence with roadside bombs and suicide attacks, the United Nations said Saturday. Updated: Feb 04, 03:36 AM
One of India’s most powerful and controversial politicians rises from a throne-like armchair, a clutch of candidates standing deferentially behind her and two large portraits flanking the stage. A gated semicircle keeps tens of thousands of supporters 20 yards (meters) away. Updated: Feb 04, 03:36 AM
Pakistan’s prime minister will explain his country’s stance on the issue of peace talks with the Afghan Taliban when he travels next week to Qatar to meet the Gulf state’s leaders, a government spokesman said Saturday. Updated: Feb 04, 01:05 AM
The spokesman for Kenya’s military says an estimated 100 Somali militants were killed after helicopter gunships targeted a gathering of more than 200 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia. Updated: Feb 03, 05:08 PM
Sudan’s military bombed a Bible school built by a U.S. Christian aid group, prompting students and teachers at the school to run for their lives in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state. Updated: Feb 03, 12:07 PM
The United Nations said Friday that Somalia’s famine is over, but the world body’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back. Updated: Feb 03, 12:07 PM
In a story Feb. 1 about the arrest of a purported spokesman of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Ahmed Abdullahi, the Borno state director of the State Security Service, confirmed the man’s capture. Another official in the state, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, confirmed it to local journalists. Updated: Feb 03, 01:06 AM
Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the battered city of Homs on Saturday, killing more than 200 people in what appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said. Updated: Feb 04, 04:05 AM
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard began naval maneuvers Saturday in the latest show of force near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the critical Gulf oil tanker route that Tehran has threatened to close in retaliation for tougher Western sanctions. Updated: Feb 04, 03:06 AM
An Egyptian security official says the number of protesters killed in clashes with security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot has risen to seven. Updated: Feb 04, 03:06 AM
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned of a war between Khartoum and South Sudan because their failure to settle a dispute over an oil export deal. Updated: Feb 03, 05:07 PM
Abu Hamza was in a crowd of thousands in the Syrian border town of Qusair, shouting for President Bashar Assad to leave power, when a sniper’s bullet tore through his leg and shattered the bone into 18 pieces. Updated: Feb 03, 03:36 PM
