New Delhi, May 22 (AP/UNB) -An Indian activist group said Wednesday the government has frozen its bank account as part of a broader crackdown on rights groups that receive foreign funding and have criticized India's poli...

Iceland, May 22 (AP/UNB) - Progressive Party leader Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson has been chosen as Iceland's new prime minister.He was named Wednesday after several weeks of talks on the formation of a new government.Th...

Brussels, May 22 (AP/UNB) - Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization.That move would slap sanctions su...

Ukraine, May 22 (AP/UNB) -Ukrainian reporters have disrupted a government session chaired by the prime minister, suggesting his family members could be the next victims of official inaction after police in Kiev stood by ...

Jordan, May 22 (AP/UNB) -Syria's ambassador to Jordan has denounced a meeting of nations that back the Syrian opposition, calling the gathering part of a U.S.-Israeli campaign to destroy his country.Jordan is hosting 10 ...

Rome, May 22 (AP/UNB) -A judge in Italy has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia to stand trial in the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people.Francesco Schettino...

Congo, May 22 (AP/UNB) -A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel ...

Stockholm, May 22 (AP/UNB) - Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low...

Iran, May 22 (AP/UNB) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from an upcoming presidential race is an act of "oppression" and he will take the case to the...

Islamabad, May 22 (AP/UNB) - Pakistan says it shares "identical views" on foreign policy with China, whose premier is beginning a two-day visit to Islamabad in the latest sign of the tight relationship between the two As...