The body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January was found in an orchard Sunday, his throat slit and a note attached to his body saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police said. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was managing a health program i …
Up to 400 women and girls are being held in Afghan prisons for "moral crimes" including running away from home to escape beatings or forced marriage according to a study.Ten years after the toppling of the Taliban government was accompanied by Western promises of a new era of w …
IMPERIAL CITY, PLANET ZARKLOM 12—Frustrated by "the astonishing incapacity of earthlings to halt the rampant slaughter of their own kind" in Syria, the emperor of Zarklom 12 announced Wednesday he had no choice but to dispatch his own intergalactic forces from 3 million light …
To believe one poll released today, half of Republican voters surveyed at the weekend in Mississippi and Alabama believe the US president to be a Muslim. Roughly two thirds also said they did not believe in evolution.
“The government of Turkey is prepared to seek the approval of its parliament in order to deploy its forces in Syrian territory should the violence escalate and pose a threat to Turkey’s national security,“ warned Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on …
While Mitt Romney was scoring a narrow and unimpressive victory in the Ohio primary over Rick Santorum in his near-death march to the Republican presidential nomination, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland was losing in a Democratic primary to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. …
Israel has sent a delegation of 100 students to represent it in the annual Apartheid Week in South Africa, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The report in Maariv noted one unusual participant in this year's delegation -- a 25-year-old Muslim Bushra Khalilieh, a member …
Walkout comes after UN secretary-general and human rights high commissioner tell session gay people should be protected
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Sunday that he would use military action to prevent Iran from securing nuclear weapons, even as he urged Israel and its supporters to refrain from "loose talk of war" and allow diplomacy and "crippling sanctions" to work.
's a word that's starting to pop up with some frequency in the coverage of the 2012 Republican presidential primary -- "suicidal." Why is that? This week, New York's Jonathan Chait and The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza offer theories of why this election has been so chaotic -- with …
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