KABUL (Reuters) – Several hundred Afghans chanting “Death to America” rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to protest against an American church’s plan to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
TEHRAN (AP) — Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who faces death by stoning for adultery, now has received a new sentence of 99 lashes after a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, her son said Monday. There was no official confirmation of …
Charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta following the death of his son in the Bahamas are dropped.
KABUL (Reuters) – The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009, according to an independent monitoring site Monday and a tally compiled by Reuters.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has regrets over his role in the Iraq war, but he stopped short of saying what he would have done differently and offered no apology. “You would be inhuman if you didn’t regret the death of so many extraordinary, brave and committed …