Fear and trauma haunt Congolese massacre survivorsWounded in the head and chest and with her children in tow, Miniunga Bonkita fled to the haven of an island in the Congo River, a sliver of land between two nations. "I stumbled across the assailants...
Desperate Venezuelan migrants turn to Colombia coca plantationsThey were once manual laborers, taxi drivers, fishermen and merchants. But Venezuelan migrants fleeing poverty and shortages of basic necessities have been forced into new work: picking coca leaves fo...
Anti-communist guerrilla who became Afghan president diesAfghanistan’s first president following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country and the collapse in 1992 of Kabul’s pro-communist government, Sibghatullah Mujadidi, has died. He was 93. The w...
Separated migrant families demand millions from US agenciesEight immigrant families demanded millions of dollars in damages Monday from the Trump administration for separating them, including a Guatemalan woman who alleged an officer said her 5-year-old son w...
Venezuela opposition delivers first cargo of humanitarian aid — GuaidoVenezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaido, said on Monday his team had delivered a first cargo of the humanitarian aid that has become a flashpoint in his tussle with President Nicolas Maduro, withou...
Former White House aide who wrote exposé sues TrumpA former White House aide is suing President Donald Trump and arguing the government is trying to illegally penalize him after he wrote a book that portrayed an unflattering picture of life in the Wes...
Unease over US exit in Afghan valley where Soviets were routedThe last time Abdul Karim saw Soviet forces he was a teenage mujahideen fighter shivering on an Afghan mountainside, clutching his Kalashnikov and wondering if winter or the Russians would bring death...
Russia seeks to vindicate Afghan war, 30 years after pulloutSoviet authorities themselves condemned the USSR’s bloody occupation of Afghanistan, but 30 years later some in Vladimir Putin’s Russia are coming to see the operation in a more positive light. After...
‘Tired of fighting’: 30 years ago, Soviets withdraw from AfghanistanOn February 15, 1989, crowds of stunned onlookers watched the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan over the Friendship Bridge -- defeated after a decade of war. "The Russians were waving and smiling a...
Delhi hotel fire kills at least 17, spurs safety concernsA fire swept through a hotel in New Delhi early on Tuesday, killing 17 people, authorities in the Indian capital said, raising fresh questions about safety standards in poorly regulated budget hotels....
North Korea may have made more nuclear bombs, but threat reduced: studyNorth Korea has continued to produce bomb fuel while in denuclearization talks with the United States and may have produced enough in the past year to add as many as seven nuclear weapons to its arsen...
Top Pentagon official in Iraq to discuss US troop presenceActing US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for an unannounced trip that he said would emphasize the importance of Iraqi sovereignty and broach the issue of the future o...
Turkey orders 1,112 people arrested over Gulen linksTurkey ordered the arrest of 1,112 people over suspected links to the network of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, broadcaster CNN Turk...
US lawmakers reach tentative deal to avoid government shutdownUS congressional negotiators on Monday reached a tentative deal to try to avert another partial government shutdown on Saturday, but congressional aides said it did not contain the $5.7 billion Presid...
Embattled Aussie PM suffers historic defeat over refugeesAustralia's conservative minority government suffered a monumental political defeat Tuesday, becoming the first administration in nearly a century to lose a vote on major legislation and fuelling call...
The impossible job: India’s pollsters face uphill battle to call electionThousands of candidates, hundreds of parties, endless combinations of possible coalitions – spare a thought for India’s pollsters, tasked with making sense of the country’s fiendishly complicated poli...
US Muslim lawmaker sorry for tweet that sparked anti-Semitism rowIlhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in the US Congress, "unequivocally" apologized Monday after suggesting US support for Israel is fueled by money from a pro-Israel lobby group. The Minneso...
US denies telling banks to stop working with PalestiniansThe United States has denied accusations it is pressuring banks to stop dealing with the Palestinian government, whose relations with Washington have been plummeting. Several Palestinian officials hav...
Pompeo warns eastern Europe on Chinese and Russian meddlingUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is invoking the 30th anniversary of the demise of communism to implore countries in Central Europe to resist Chinese and Russian influence. Speaking in the Slovak cap...