By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press
Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
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 Comments
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 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The U.S. military has a new set of orders in its pursuit of the terrorists who are guilty of killing four Americans in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi: Capture or kill. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A man who claimed to be a Salafist-Wahhibist cleric put the word out on Twitter that women should not flip on air conditioners at home because it sends the signal they’re home and that could lead to moral depravities Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Colleen Barry - Associated Press
Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring show girls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but also dressed as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
The U.S. military could blind Syria’s air defenses — as it would need to do to establish a ‘no-fly’ zone over rebel held areas — without firing a shot, using new and highly secret cyberattack capabilities, according to USA Today. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
The Obama administration responded cautiously to the very public detention, then release by Russian authorities, of an American diplomat accused of spying in Moscow, saying that the U.S. remains committed to close relations with Russia and downplaying the possibility of retaliation against Russian intelligence agents in the U.S. Published May 14, 2013
By James Morrison - The Washington Times
Pakistani Ambassador Sherry Rehman resigned Tuesday, citing her party's loss in parliamentary elections as she plans to return to her South Asian nation where she faces a police investigation on charges of blasphemy. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Dozens of Rohingya Muslims attempting to flee a cyclone were killed when the boats in which they were sailing capsized off western Myanmar. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The conservative mayor of Osaka, Japan, said Monday that forcing Asian women to prostitute themselves to Japanese soldiers during World War II was a necessity to "maintain discipline" among the ranks. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
An American was detained by Russian authorities late Monday, amid accusations he was trying to spy for the CIA. He's been subsequently turned over to American authorities. Published May 14, 2013
By Sameer N. Yacoubs - Associated Press
A convoy of gunmen opened fire on a row of liquor stores in eastern Baghdad immediately after sunset on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding five others, officials said. Published May 14, 2013
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
Syrian opposition activists are warning of an imminent assault by President Bashar Assad's forces and Lebanese Hezbollah militants on a rebel-held town near the border with Lebanon. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Taliban members released their last four Turkish hostages on Tuesday afternoon as a means of promoting good relations with other Muslims. Published May 14, 2013
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
Pakistan's ambassador to Washington has resigned following the defeat of the ruling party in Saturday's parliamentary elections. Published May 14, 2013
By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times
At this airfield in western Afghanistan's Herat province, there is a stark reminder of the Soviets' occupation during the 1980s — the Shindand boneyard. Published May 14, 2013
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
Syrian opposition leaders say they will put on trial a rebel commander shown on a Web video apparently eating the heart of a dead Syrian soldier. Published May 14, 2013
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
Afghanistan's cash-strapped government has levied nearly $1 billion in suspect taxes and fees on U.S.-funded reconstruction projects and military contractors over the past five years, often in violation of bilateral agreements with Washington, a new audit by a U.S. government watchdog found. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Federal agents arrested and charged a Saudi Arabian who flew into Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport from Amsterdam with a pressure cooker and an altered passport. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
An American sailor was killed while trying to save a woman who was being mugged in the Bahamas. Published May 14, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Huge swarms of newly hatched locusts have started their march across the sands of Negev Desert in Israel, eating much of the nation's technologically produced farmland, and teams of exterminators have been working nonstop to fight off the threat, NBC reported. Published May 14, 2013
