Government Ministers

An Israeli government minister said Thursday that Iran is developing a missile that could strike targets more than 6,000 miles ways and thus would be capable of reaching the East Coast of the United States....

With Greece teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Monday pushed back crucial talks on austerity measures with party leaders in his coalition government, defying calls by European leaders to speed up an agreement that...

Radical preacher Abu Qatada is released on bail Monday in England. British authorities consider him a threat to national security because of his extremist views, but a judge last week ruled that he could not be kept under detention without bail any...

Italy complained that it was not informed of a joint British-Nigeria rescue mission to free two hostages held by suspected Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. The two hostages, a Briton and an Italian, were both killed before they could be rescued....

Nearly three years after the end of a bloody war that endured for a quarter of a century, Sri Lanka faces new calls to investigate alleged war crimes and stop a continuing pattern of shadowy disappearances and detentions. The accusations have angered...

Renegade soldiers seize power in Mali: A group of soldiers in Mali claimed Thursday to have ousted the government over complaints the government didn't provide enough weapons and ammunition to crush a Tuareg rebellion in the country's north....

The Egyptian parliament Thursday passed a law barring top officials from deposed President Hosni Mubarak’s regime from running for president, a move certain to draw legislators into a fierce political battle with the country’s military leaders...

The media empire of Rupert Murdoch had extensive and possibly inappropriate contacts with leading British politicians at a time when his giant News Corp. was mounting a takeover bid of broadcaster BSkyB, according to evidence placed before a judge in...

Media baron Rupert Murdoch tells of his association with top British leaders during testimony before a judicial inquiry Wednesday. Critics say the Australian-born media mogul wields too much influence over British public life, an accusation he dismisses.....

Media baron Rupert Murdoch testified at a judicial inquiry in London set up because of the phone-hacking scandal engulfing his media empire. The 81-year-old Murdoch dismissed suggestions that he wields undue influence on British political life and said...

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril says Moammar Gadhafi has been killed. "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time.  Moammar Gadhafi has been killed," Jibril told a news conference in the capital Tripoli. The announcement...

The sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was close to collapse on Friday, sources close to the case said, in a dramatic turnabout that could upend French politics again. Local, national and international media were...