Blind activist Chen Guangcheng said Thursday China had agreed to issue him a passport within 15 days allowing him to go to the United States after a bitter row between Beijing and Washington. It was the first indication of when Chen would be allowed…

TEGUCIGALPA Honduras People in Honduras' predominantly Indian Mosquito coast region burned down government offices and demanded that U.S. drug agents leave the area reacting angrily to an anti-drug operation in which a local mayor said police gunfire…

(CNN)-- Confusion fear frustration -- emotions are running high among Greece's people as they face the prospect of new elections next month and massive uncertainty over the country's economic future. No party was able to form a coalition government…

Syrian forces were accused of summarily executing 15 civilians as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated from a shelled town the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad however accused the West of ignoring…

JAKARTA Indonesia - An Indonesian official says special forces have found the voice-and-data recorder of a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jagged mist-shrouded cliff on a dormant volcano. The "black box" could help explain the cause of the…

ISLAMABAD Pakistani negotiators have proposed a fee of about $5 000 for each NATO shipping container and tanker that transits its territory by land into and out of Afghanistan. The amount is a key sticking point in discussions about the terms of…

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande named a government dominated by moderate left-wingers on Wednesday after Socialist Party boss Martine Aubry overlooked for the post of prime minister said she no longer wanted to be part of the new…

PESHAWAR Pakistan (AP) Two Pakistani air force planes crashed in a residential area in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday killing all four pilots on board and injuring five people on the ground police said. Residents of Nowshera city where the…

The argument is fairly straightforward. Even $4 billion a year to prop up the Afghan military is cheaper than the cost of maintaining a foreign army in Afghanistan and a lot easier for war-weary publics to swallow. Some of the requests appear to be…

RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian leader widely credited by the West with introducing transparency to a corruption-plagued and donor-dependent economy lost his job as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday. Although he is…