By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Pope Francis in remarks at the chapel of St. Martha’s House said gossip is a sin, a slap in the face of Jesus, and those who claim to be followers of the faith should stop being “nosy” and mind their own business. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Talk about a computer error: One couple intending to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, was mistakenly taken to Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, which is 7,000 miles from their planned destination — and on a different continent. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
State-run radio in Iran is reporting the nation has executed two men convicted of spying for the United States and for Israel. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
South Korea has accused its northern neighbor of firing a short-range projectile into its nearby waters for the fifth time in the past three days. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Syria’s President Bashar Assad emerged from the shadows to announce in a publicly televised interview that he’s not stepping down, and he’s not caving to “terrorists” who were tearing apart his country. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Youth gangs in one Stockholm suburb were rioting on Monday, hurling rocks and setting buildings and cars on fire, in protest of police who fatally shot an elderly man. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 rocked off the coast of Chile on Monday. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times
Buddhists and Muslims are clashing with increasing ferocity in Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka, where minority Islamic ethnic groups blame racism by majority Buddhists more than religious intolerance. Published May 16, 2013
By James Morrison - The Washington Times
"In together, out together," Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende explained when asked how long his country's combat troops would stay in Afghanistan after U.S. forces leave next year. Published May 16, 2013
By Fabiola Sanchez and Karl Ritter - Associated Press
First, milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities — toilet paper. Published May 16, 2013
By Farid Hossain - Associated Press
Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and sparing Myanmar almost entirely. Published May 16, 2013
By John Price - SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
The Arab Spring that prompted the ouster of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya also led to the rise of Islamists who are bent on creating Islamic states that adhere to Shariah law — and that fate could await Syria after dictator Bashar Assad falls. Published May 16, 2013
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
The tragedy of Benghazi, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, seemed a cut-and-dried story in the days after a mob attacked the State Department's mission in eastern Libya. Today, the public knows that those early administration pronouncements were false. Published May 16, 2013
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon
Russia is engaged in a major buildup of both nuclear and conventional missile defense systems at the same time Moscow is seeking legal limits on U.S. missile defenses, according to U.S. officials. Published May 16, 2013
Rising persecution of minority religious communities in Pakistan, Iran and Syria — and other nations — is a serious threat to stability in those countries and their neighbors, a panel of specialists said at a Hudson Institute forum this week, showing how religious tensions can have larger political ramifications in hot spots around the world. Published May 16, 2013
By Haruna Umar and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press
Cellphone service was cut off Thursday in areas of northeast Nigeria as jet fighters streaked through the sky and more soldiers were deployed to fight Islamic extremists waging a brutal insurgency. Published May 16, 2013
By Amir Shah and Kathy Gannon - Associated Press
A security firm has confirmed that four civilian contractors killed in a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan were Americans. Published May 16, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Standing in a drizzle that seemed to define his bad week, President Obama called on Congress on Thursday to boost security at U.S. embassies around the globe, seeking to deflect the issue onto lawmakers as the controversy simmers over the deadly terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in September. Published May 16, 2013
By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing 15 and wounding several dozen more. Published May 16, 2013
By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press
A dozen students and a teacher saw a man kill himself with a shot in the head at a private Catholic school on Thursday, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said. Published May 16, 2013
By Miles Yu
China is challenging a key American policy toward Japan: the unambiguous U.S. support of Japan's sovereign rights to the Ryukyu island chain, including the key strategic island of Okinawa. Published May 16, 2013
By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press
Syrian rebels withdrew from a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday after heavy fighting with government troops, an activist group said, as it more than doubled its tally of deaths from sectarian killings in a coastal city earlier this month. Published May 16, 2013
