Associated Press
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 00:00
The number of people killed by police in Brazil's biggest state has plunged 40 percent, and experts are crediting what seems an unlikely reason — a new rule that forbids officers from transporting or otherwise helping shooting victims.
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 00:00
Mexican authorities say gunmen kidnapped a police beat reporter from his home in Veracruz state, where at least a dozen journalists have been slain or gone missing since 2010.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 09:07
Iran's foreign minister says Washington's "wishes are unlikely to come true" at upcoming talks between the Islamic Republic and world powers over its nuclear program.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 09:06
She says lawyers are working without detailed understanding of a critical state security law that was enacted but never published.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 09:01
The bombing - one of at least seven such attacks in Aleppo on Tuesday - struck a mosque that was being used as a school, killing at least 11 people, activists said.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 08:50
Multiple bombings rocked central Baghdad on Wednesday, striking mainly near the heavily fortified Green Zone where key government offices are located and killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 11:13
A new series of car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday killed at least 16 people, officials said, as Iraq's Shiite-led government grapples with a stubborn Sunni extremist-led insurgency in the western Anbar province.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 11:01
Security officials in Yemen say armed men have abducted a British national working with an oil services company on a main street in the capital of Sanaa.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 08:18
The United Nations said Saturday that at least 733 Iraqis were killed during violence in January, even when leaving out casualties from an embattled western province.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 08:13
The kidnapping marked a low point in relations between Egypt and its western neighbor since the civil war that removed former Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi 2011.