BRENDAN TREMBATH: A New York-based Human Rights watchdog says the United Nations and European Union aren’t putting enough pressure on repressive countries. Human Rights Watch’s newly released annual report says the international community...

Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Cocoa beans that have been registered for export in Ivory Coast and taxed can be shipped out of the country, a spokesman for the government of president- elect, Alassane Ouattara.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A prime minister chosen by Hezbollah and its allies won enough support on Monday to form Lebanon’s government, unleashing angry protests that continued on Tuesday, realigning politics and culminating the generation-long ascent of...

Five suspected militants have died in a US drone strike in north-western Pakistan, Pakistani officials say.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — In the newly won districts around this southern city, American forces are encountering empty homes and farm buildings left so heavily booby-trapped by Taliban insurgents that the Americans have been systematically destroying...

Thailand will extradite accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to the U.S. to face terrorism charges, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said today. “He may be gone already,” Abhisit told reporters in Bangkok. “He will be extradited whenever the...

Only 24 of several dozen pilot whales stranded on a remote northern New Zealand beach survived a stormy first night ashore despite rescuers’ desperate efforts to save them, officials said Thursday. Large waves and strong winds lashed Spirits Bay...

Authorities say a small plane made a smooth emergency landing without hitting any cars on a busy stretch of Interstate 85 in northeast Atlanta just as the city’s evening rush hour began.

In case you didn’t know, today is Constitution Day, which we celebrate that document that has been America’s law of the land since 1787, and over which we have fought, grappled, waged huge, expensive courtroom battles, interpreted,...

Police confirm that two mortar shells fired Wednesday into Eshkol Regional Council were phosphorus bombs, say not the first time; southern Israel residents face rocket, mortar barrages, Air Force bombs Gaza targets, kills one Palestinian