ISLAMABAD (AP) — An elderly Pakistani mother made an emotional appeal Saturday for authorities to halt the execution of her son, who was sentenced to death at age 14. Shafqat Hussain was sentenced in 2004 by a court in the
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers failed Friday in their attempt to stop prosecutors from appealing the double-amputee athlete’s negligent killing conviction and again seeking a murder verdict against him for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa dismissed an
BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a spokesman for the Islamic State movement. The development Thursday came as both groups — among the most ruthless
BEIJING (AP) — Britain has become the first major Western government to apply for membership in a proposed Chinese-led Asian regional bank that Washington worries will undercut institutions such as the World Bank. The British Treasury said Thursday it will
MADRID (AP) — The Interior Ministry says police have arrested eight suspected members of a jihadi terror cell in raids across the country. A ministry statement Friday said the eight allegedly urged attacks to be carried out in Spain and
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors have offered to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, potentially unlocking a stalemate in an almost five-year-old investigation into alleged sex crimes. Prosecutors had previously refused to travel to London, where Assange has taken
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey says a foreign intelligence operative suspected of helping three British schoolgirls join the Islamic State extremist group has been detained. Foreign Minister Mehmet Cavusoglu said the suspect acted even though he or she worked for
MADRID (AP) — A Barcelona judge has issued a landmark ruling that three sex workers should have been hired full-time by a brothel owner. The judge ordered the brothel owner to make payments to the government so the prostitutes will
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s foreign minister says people who act as “apologists” for terrorists are partly to blame for their actions. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was countering allegations by Muslim advocacy organization CAGE, which says heavy-handed attention from British spies
MADRID (AP) — Police neutralized a jihadi terror cell Tuesday with the arrests of two people who were part of a larger group allegedly planning to carry out attacks in Spain and other European countries, the Interior Ministry said. The
Zambia’s president collapsed while making a speech and was diagnosed with malaria, officials said on Sunday.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea — the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March. In a trailer for an
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has launched its 1.1 trillion euro ($1.2 trillion) stimulus program by starting purchases of government bonds. The chief monetary authority for the 19-countries that use the euro confirmed Monday that the purchases
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Sgt. John Thompson, a British World War II special operation pilot, was considered missing in action for more than 70 years. Not anymore. On Monday, his 92-year-old sister Dorothy Webster received his ring from a family
PARIS (AP) — Police in Paris detained five Greenpeace activists on Monday after they dangled from a bridge and unfurled banners on the Seine River that call for cuts in nuclear power, the environmental group said. France has the world’s
LUCKNOW, India (AP)– Authorities were investigating Wednesday how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors of an assault by Islamic militants that killed hundreds of civilians in Nigeria have described days of relentless violence in which, one witness said, some people were slaughtered “like insects.”
SINUI ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — He ran the first chance he got.
