MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Israeli officials have assured him that they are not planning a military strike on Iran.In an interview with CNN television broadcast Sunday, Medvedev also confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret visit to Moscow ...
TOKYO (AP) - A bear injured nine people at highway rest stop in central Japan before being shot dead in a souvenir shop, a firefighter said Sunday.The black bear seriously injured four men Saturday afternoon in Nyukawa, a small mountain town about 140 miles (230 kilometers) west of Tokyo, said ...
BERLIN (AP) - A doctor leading a group therapy session gave participants drugs and other substances that killed two and left 10 hospitalized, Berlin police said Sunday. One person was left comatose and in critical condition.The doctor who led the session has acknowledged giving the participants ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Russia has opened a $2.2 billion line of credit for Venezuela to purchase weapons including armored vehicles and surface-to-air missiles, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday.Venezuela is buying more arms because it feels threatened by Colombia's decision to give U.S. ...
BERLIN (AP) - Germany's foreign minister on Sunday advocated laying the foundations by 2013 for an eventual withdrawal from Afghanistan.Chancellor Angela Merkel, who he is challenging in elections later this month, said it makes sense to exert pressure on Kabul to ensure progress. The country's ...
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking before a key meeting with the White House Mideast envoy, said Sunday that differences remain with the U.S. over resuming peacemaking with the Palestinians.Netanyahu, whose Likud Party is ideologically committed to expanding ...
BAGHDAD (AP) - Suicide attackers struck near a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad and a checkpoint west of the capital on Monday as bombings killed at least 17 people nationwide.The violence was concentrated in former Sunni insurgent strongholds that have seen a sharp decline in violence after ...
LONDON (AP) - Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners in simultaneous attacks designed by al-Qaida to be the deadliest terrorist strike since Sept. 11, 2001.Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir ...
KABUL (AP) - At the Afghan polling station called Haji Nehmetullah House, every one of the 725 votes cast during the country's Aug. 20 election went to President Hamid Karzai. At another site, Haji Akhtar Mohammad House, the incumbent got each of the precisely 400 ballots cast.Allegations of ...
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's opposition swept to a historic victory in elections Sunday, crushing the ruling conservative party that has run the country for most of the postwar era and assuming the daunting task of pulling the economy out of its worst slump since World War II.A grim-looking Prime ...