By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Pope Francis, in a blistering attack on capitalism, said followers of the faith ought to bolster their charitable outreach and dampen their materialist pursuits. He made his comments while visiting a food kitchen on Tuesday. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A machete-wielding attacker and his gun-toting sidekick killed a man in the streets of London on Wednesday, and police are regarding the pair — whom they subsequently shot — as potential terrorists. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Alana Goodman - The Washington Free Beacon
A “secret” Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Bassem Mroue and Bradley Klapper - Associated Press
The United States and several key allies sought Wednesday a strategy to end Syria’s civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime’s military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Iran is moving forward with a contested uranium-enrichment program, a slap in the face to the West which has charged the nation with unlawful pursuit of nuclear weaponry. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
Libya’s prime minister has nominated a new interior minister to fill the first spot vacated in his Cabinet, a consequence of a new law that bars officials who had served under late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from holding public office. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - Associated Press
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe signed into law on Wednesday a constitution that scales back government powers, including those currently enjoyed by his own office. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Ashish Kumar Sen and Ashish Kumar Sen THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
Myanmar's leader met President Obama at the White House on Monday and pledged his government's commitment to democratic reforms, an end to communal violence and a cease-fire with ethnic minority rebels fighting in the northern part of his Southeast Asian nation. Published May 20, 2013
By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times
The U.S. attorney in Arizona leaked an internal memo to undermine a veteran Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent who was highly critical of the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation, the Justice Department's office of inspector general said Monday in a report. Published May 20, 2013
By Lynn Berry - Associated Press
The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV television reported. Published May 19, 2013
By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press
North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. Published May 19, 2013
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
Myanmar's president will meet Monday with President Obama amid criticism that the Southeast Asian country has done little to end its war against ethnic minority rebels, protect stateless Muslims or institutionalize democratic reforms that have been promised since its military junta was dissolved in 2011. Published May 19, 2013
By James Morrison - The Washington Times
Pakistani Ambassador Sherry Rehman doesn't mince words. She rolls them out like fresh dough, pounds them into heaps and injects them with a "cognitive disconnect" or a "bilateral trajectory." Published May 19, 2013
By Associated Press
Authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Iran's state radio said. Published May 19, 2013
By Associated Press
Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. Published May 18, 2013
By Associated Press
Religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience. Published May 18, 2013
By Associated Press
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down and will instead "face the storm," raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war. Published May 18, 2013
By Associated Press
North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. Published May 18, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel rallied against a new plan to force them to serve in the nation's military — a law they say violates their religious beliefs. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Russia has sent more than a dozen war ships to patrol the waters near Syria, U.S. military spokesmen said on Friday. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Witches in Swaziland — where witchcraft is serious business — aren't cleared to fly their broomsticks higher than 150 meters and violators may be arrested and fined. Published May 17, 2013
By Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press
Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers outside Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni funeral to the south of the capital, deepened fears Iraq may be headed toward a new round of sectarian conflict. Published May 17, 2013
