PARACHINAR, FEB 5 (AP/UNB) - A government official says a military convoy struck a roadside bomb in northwestern Pakistan, killing one soldier.Jamil Khan says militants opened fire on the troops after the blast Sunday ...

BAGHDAD, FEB 5 (AP/UNB) - Authorities say gunmen have killed an Interior Ministry official in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad.Police say the official was driving through the Iraqi capital Sunday when the gunmen ...

KUWAIT CITY, FEB 5 (AP/UNB) - Kuwait's caretaker prime minister has stepped down to clear the way for a new government after parliamentary elections dominated by hard-line Islamists and other opposition groups.The offi...

MUNICH, FEB 5 (AP/UNB) - The Russian and Chinese veto of a U.N. resolution aimed at ending Syria's bloodshed drew stinging criticism from Arab and Turkish officials on Sunday, and Tunisia's prime minister said that cut...

KANDAHAR, FEB 5 (AP/UNB) - A car bomb exploded just outside the police headquarters of a southern Afghanistan city on Sunday, killing at least seven people, officials said.The blast went off at a parking lot outside th...

CANBERRA, Australia, Feb 5 (AP/UNB) – Protesters attacked seven Syrian embassies around the world following reports of the bloodiest episode yet in Damascus' nearly yearlong crackdown on dissent. Mobs trashed diplomat...

Nevada, Feb 5 (AP/UNB) - Mitt Romney won today’s Nevada caucuses, the Associated Press said, solidifing his status as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination before a series of contests over the nex...

MOSCOW, Feb 05 (AP/UNB) — Their frozen breath rising in the brutally frigid air, tens of thousands of protesters marched through downtown Moscow on Saturday to keep up the pressure on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin o...

CAIRO, Feb 05 (AP/UNB) — Egyptian security forces on Saturday fired tear gas from armored trucks at protesters demanding an end to military rule, as anger over a deadly soccer riot fueled a third day of clashes that...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 05 (AP/UNB)- The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution backing an Arab League plan th...