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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Canadian special forces soldier was killed in a friendly fire incident after he and others ignored an order to stay in their car and showed up to the front line unannounced, a spokesman for Iraq's Kurdish forces said Sunday.

Around half the estimated 700 Britons who have gone to fight with Islamic State jihadists in Syria have returned home, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. The weekly broadsheet's figures, in a story about a leaked draft of the Home Office interior ministry's new counter-extremism strategy, go…

China vowed Sunday to plough ahead on economic and diplomatic cooperation with Russia despite Western sanctions against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine, stressing their relations are based on "mutual need". "The practical cooperation between China and Russia is based on mutual need, it seeks…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are gathering at a Tel Aviv square under the banner "Israel wants change" and calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be replaced in March 17 national elections.Saturday night's rally at Rabin Square is the highest profile demonstration…

One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and three wounded as a result of fighting in separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours despite a ceasefire deal, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Sunday. Attacks have fallen significantly in the past two weeks, but accusations of…

Irish eyes were not smiling Saturday morning after legendary laggard Mayor Bill de Blasio showed up a half hour late for the St. Patrick’s Parade in the Rockaways. Organizers delayed the start of the parade for several minutes in the hope Hizzoner would arrive, but finally had to step off. “He’s…

The Obama administration’s strained relations with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) over critical foreign policy issues may now be at the breaking point. This development comes amid reports that the Department of Justice has decided to pursue criminal charges against the veteran New Jersey politician.…

A young Iranian woman accused of marrying -- and divorcing -- 10 men in less than two years under an elaborate con trick has been charged with fraud, state media reported Sunday. The alleged deception was made possible under Islamic rules that entitle a woman to a financial sum agreed before…

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Trading in their combat boots and fatigues for high heels and ball gowns, female rebel fighters who normally fight Ukrainian soldiers took Saturday off to take part in a beauty pageant.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says it was through news reports that he first learned that Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private, nongovernment email account while serving as his secretary of state.In an interview Saturday with CBS News, Obama says he's glad that Clinton has instructed…

Authorities are investigating the death of Ahmed Al-Jumaili, 36, who was killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex late Wednesday night. The Dallas Police Department said that the shooting took place at 11:40 p.m., when Al-Jumaili and his wife were taking photos of the snow. The fundraising…

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Volodymyr Kuzovkin's office is less than 50 miles from the European Union, but for him and his factory, the EU is a world away.

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A friend who is no fan of Mayor de Blasio’s summarizes the headlines. “What a week!” he writes. “Monday we learned murders are up 20 percent this year. Now we learn that subway delays are up 45 per...

A total solar eclipse--the biggest in Europe since 1999--will darken skies over the parts of the continent at 9:45 a.m. UT (5:45 a.m. Eastern Time) on Friday, March 20.The eclipse is expected to block a whopping 98 percent of the sun's light in northern Scotland, The Telegraph reported. As for…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a public appearance Sunday amid rumors about his health, as a relative dismissed the claims as gossip meant to derail ongoing nuclear talks with world powers.

Saudi Arabia overtook India to become the world's biggest weapons importer in 2014, a year when global defense trade rose for the sixth straight year to a record $64.4 billion, research company IHS said on Sunday. The United States remained the top defense exporter in 2014, ahead of Russia, France,…

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine claimed Saturday to have fulfilled their end of a February deal with government forces to withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline as part of a ceasefire. "Today is the last day of the weapons withdrawal," Eduard Basurin, one of the rebel leaders told…

The UK and Russia will continue to have a "prickly relationship" with no clear change in Vladimir Putin's intentions in Ukraine, the foreign secretary says. Philip Hammond said Moscow had chosen to enter a "strategic competition" with the West rather than being an ally. Despite the truce, which…

English monarch's bones were found in 2012 under what is now a parking lot in England, but there's some new dirt to his story

BEIJING (AP) — China's foreign minister renewed calls Sunday for senior Japanese leaders to abandon any attempt to water down their nation's guilt over its World War II aggression against China and others.

Australia Sunday said it stopped two teenage brothers at Sydney Airport believed to be heading to the Middle East to fight, amid growing concern in Western countries over young people joining jihadist groups. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the two boys, aged 16 and 17 and from Sydney, had…

The latest EU sanctions imposed against Syria indicate the regime of President Bashar Assad has been working clandestinely with the Islamic State group, the Financial Times reported. Sanctions, published Saturday, were imposed against Syrian-Greek businessman George Haswani, head of Hesco, one of…

When days are dark, friends are few and the state of your bank account makes you want to weep, there is only one thing you can do in bleak, crisis-hit Russia. "It's surprising but, even though there is a crisis, the demand for artisanal chocolate has increased," said Vitaly Ponomarev, a chocolatier…

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — The European Union is starting to warm to Belarus again after years of bitter division during which the east European nation was coined as "the last dictatorship" on the continent.

The battle for control of America’s foreign policy goes back to the country’s founding. When Speaker of the House John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, it was seen by many as an unprecedented politicization of American…

The US Secret Service locked down the White House Saturday after a loud noise was heard as reporters gathered to await President Barack Obama and wife Michelle's departure for Selma, Alabama, a pool report said. A Secret Service K9 unit was investigating a vehicle on 16th and Constitution Avenue…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — More than 40 million people in Pakistan do not have access to a toilet, forcing them to defecate in the open, which in turn is a major contributor to stunting in the country, a top UNICEF official said.

To extend a rationale for Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, Stephen Kinzer offers the concept of “strategic depth,” or the taking of enough adjacent territory to protect the homeland (“Putin’s reaction to encirclement isn’t surprising,” Opinion, March 1). The crisis is about Ukraine’s…

“These are out and out lies—now I understand why Fox News backs him because they’re not really a news service,” Maher said. “But why isn’t the mainstream media going after him with the same ferocity—the supposedly liberal media—as they did Brian Williams?” Maher asked.

The presumed wreck of one of Japan's most famous World War II battleships whose discovery in the Philippines was announced by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen this week is unlikely to be salvaged, an official suggested Saturday. The American billionaire said Wednesday his exploration team had found…

The nation produced the first female judge, ambassador, and government minister in the Arab world. Iraqi women benefited from state subsidised childcare and education; they once formed about half the public sector workforce and 50 percent of the country's doctors. Iraqi women are arguably the first…

China's foreign minister said on Sunday the search for a Malaysian Airlines flight which vanished one year ago will not stop, adding that the government will keep providing whatever help it can to relatives of those on board. "The search for MH370 will continue," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi…

A Moroccan woman was arrested at a Spanish airport Saturday on suspicion of recruiting European and North African women to join the Islamic State group, authorities said. The suspect, named as Samira Yerou, was sent to Spain by Turkish authorities after they caught her trying to illegally enter…

Ellen Pao's lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins has...

OVER the course of a dozen years, ever since atomic sleuths from the United Nations began scrutinizing Iran’s nuclear program, hundreds of inspections have uncovered a hidden world of labs and sprawling factories, some ringed by barbed wire and antiaircraft guns, others camouflaged or buried deep…

By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton on Saturday defended donations his family's charity receives from foreign governments after renewed criticism that they would create conflicts of interest should his wife, Hillary Clinton, run for president. Clinton said it…

A sanitation worker in an Atlanta suburb has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for working too early. Kevin McGill had been working for only a few months for a company contracted to do sanitation work in Sandy Springs when he was cited for picking up trash just after 5 a.m. one morning, according…

Well, Franklin Graham is at it again, giving Jesus yet another face-palm moment and ensuring that everyone else thinks Christians are mean-spirited whiners.“What’s he done now?” you ask.Franklin Graham continues to beat the drum that suggests President Obama and his administration are under the…

A Syrian businessman described as the "middleman" for oil deals between ISIS and Bashar al-Assad's regime will be targeted for European Union sanctions on Saturday. The listing of George Haswani, the owner of HESCO engineering company, sheds more light on financial links between Syria's regime and…

Top US diplomat John Kerry on Saturday sought to smooth differences with France over nuclear talks with Iran, agreeing with the French that there were still gaps to overcome in the "critical weeks" ahead. The US secretary of state said it was up to Iran to prove its peaceful intentions to the world…

On Monday, a Quebec man named Alain Philippon refused to give the unlock code to his BlackBerry at the Canadian border, and was detained on charges of hindering border agents in the performance of their duties. This is the first time a Canadian citizen has been charged for declining to unlock a…

With truly extraordinary photographs, a new book captures the struggle faced by Australian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

By Samia Nakhoul and Louis Charbonneau NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syria's envoy to the United Nations says it's time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the…

For a long time, the conventional narrative about the rise of the Islamic State (IS) has been that the jihadist group owes its rise to financial support from Gulf donors. What’s more, the IS sold that oil back to the Assad regime. This financial dealing was but one aspect of the tacit,…

By Adrian Croft and Alistair Scrutton RIGA (Reuters) - EU foreign ministers showed little appetite on Saturday for stepping up pressure on Russia over Ukraine, preferring to give a fragile ceasefire a chance before deciding whether to apply more sanctions or even to extend existing ones. Italian…

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf is not having a good week, so naturally she took it out on Fox News. Harf was on the hot seat again Friday over the growing scandal involving former Sec. Harf fielded a number of questions about Clinton’s email use and about how the State Department plans to…

Iraqi forces faced tough resistance from jihadist fighters around Tikrit Saturday, but the top US military officer said ahead of a Baghdad visit that victory was only a matter of time. Iran has actively and visibly supported Baghdad's biggest operation yet against the Islamic State group, but…

By Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - The second-highest ranking U.S. diplomat warned on Friday that pressure to arm Ukraine would increase if aggression from pro-Russian separatists persisted, even though Moscow would easily be able to send more weapons into the country than the West. Deputy…

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Somewhere between stepping off the school bus and climbing into the go-kart, Sandra Ibrahim, 14, took off her pink hijab. The broader American culture confronts them with a drumbeat of news about Islamist terrorism, movies like “American Sniper” that depict Muslims as enemies, and video games in…

Iraqi government forces and allied tribal militia have retaken the town of Al-Baghdadi, from where jihadists had threatened to attack an airbase housing US troops, the US military said Friday. Fighters from the Islamic State group had taken Al-Baghdadi, a small town on the Euphrates River in…

Everything you need to know about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress Tuesday was the presence in the visitor’s gallery of one man – Sheldon Adelson. Data from both the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics and the Center for Public Integrityshow that in the 2012…

Mariupol, Ukraine - Glowing red sparks burst and skitter across the concrete floor around a giant furnace as men at Ilyich Iron and Steel Works monitor the rolling of glowing slabs. This is one of Ukraine's largest steel plants and it is squarely in the sights of Russian-backed rebels who have a…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday pledged to continue his reforms to revive the flagging economy, promising to lift Japan out of "a period of darkness" if his party wins key local elections next month. The popular, conservative premier addressed the annual convention of his Liberal…

BERLIN/RIGA (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier downplayed a magazine report on Saturday of tensions with NATO over hawkish comments about Ukraine made by the Western alliance's supreme allied commander. Der Spiegel news magazine said an official in Chancellor Angela…

Iran is ready to cooperate with other regional powers in the battle against extremism and terrorism, its foreign minister said Saturday during a meeting with his visiting Jordanian counterpart. There is a "need to pursue dialogue and cooperation with the countries of the region to fight extremism…

Within the last few days, we’ve seen protestors holding crosses shout “go home!” at Muslims in front of the Oklahoma State Capitol, several Idaho state senators refuse to listen to a Hindu invocation, and new poll numbers suggesting that a majority of Republicans — 57 percent — “support…

It has been almost four years since US forces...

If you know your space animals, then you're probably already familiar with Ham, the first chimp America ever launched into space. She is buried in Alabama, where she has a stone marker that lists her many accomplishments.

The prime minister's obsessive Iran demonization runs on hyperbole and selective history.

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations, the United States and Britain demanded during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday that Russia release Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, but Russia defended her detention as legal. Pro-Russia forces…

The armies of Niger and Chad on Sunday launched a major ground and air offensive against Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, a source from the Niger government said. The offensive opened up a new front against the Islamists as part of regional efforts to combat them and…

Baltic nations are increasingly nervous about the threat posed by an increasingly confident Russia, as Katya Adler reports.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Friday condemned North Korea's "callous" reaction to the knife attack on the U.S. ambassador to South Korea that has added to tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that reduces the state officials’ salaries, including his own, by 10% this year as the economy slides into its first recession in five years. Why has almighty Putin done it? Let’s see: oil prices are falling, sanctions imposed by the West are…

J.B. Holmes hit four balls into the water but emerged with a one-over 73 that saw his lead slashed in half after two rounds of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, where Rory McIlroy made headlines for the wrong reasons. After a stunning 62 on Thursday, Holmes had a 36-hole total of nine-under-par 135,…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A geologist who took part in the excavation of the ancient burial mound in Amphipolis in northern Greece says the ancient tomb found together with a series of vaulted rooms wasn't built at the same time, but somewhat later than the rooms themselves. Geologist Evangelos…

It was supposed to be a crucial instrument of the Obama administration's aims in Syria, an ostensibly moderate rebel fighting force that would keep the pressure on the authoritarian regime in Damascus without aiding the ruthless jihadist forces that have captured much of the country. As a result,…

Jewel Allison, who came out accusing Bill Cosby of rape in November dating back to the late 1980’s, wrote a powerful piece Friday explaining why she didn’t come forward sooner. Writing in The Washington Post, Allison wrote why being an African American victim weighed heavily on her mind.

Iraqi troops battling the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have recaptured a town on the edge of the city of Tikrit. The recapture of Tal Ksaiba on Saturday came as fierce fighting continued on the outskirts of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's home city Tikrit. Iraqi…

Hey, Samuel Eto'o is still playing top-level professional football and OH MY GOD WHAT A GOAL.

The extended Cakaj family has built a few dozen homes here, along Tony Blair Street, between the Dubai supermarket and the French peacekeepers base, in a clannish faith that closeness would bring security. “My son had no choice,” said Xhevat Cakaj, but to leave their enclave for Germany with his…

Double Olympic champion Zou Shiming's failure to win the IBF flyweight world title on Saturday does not mean China's dream of having a professional world champion is over, says veteran promoter Bob Arum. The 83-year-old Top Rank chief, already eyeing a comeback fight for Zou, turned his attention…