The White House and US State Department are considering arming Syria's rebels, claiming ongoing reports of government crackdowns would legitimize their actions. But it remains unclear what form the assistance would take.Both US bodies made statements yesterday saying that new tactics would have ...

At least 40 people were killed and hundreds were injured when a commuter train rammed the wall at a station in Argentinean capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday.The preliminary death toll was announced by local emergency services. Media spoke earlier about at least 550 injured and another 40 passeng...

Afghan officials say at least seven people were killed in clashes between Afghan security forces and demonstrators protesting for a second day against the burning of copies of the Quran at a NATO military base.Officials say dozens of others also were injured at protests held in the capital, Kabu...

By Emilio GodoyLatin America and the Caribbean celebrated their 45th anniversary as a nuclear-weapon-free zone amidst allegations of British deployment of nuclear weapons to the South Atlantic and with no specific regime for the transport of radioactive waste.Earlier this month, the Argentin...

The Shining Path suffered a blow on Feb. 12 when a leader of the Peruvian rebel group, known by the nom de guerre of “Comrade Artemio”, was captured by security forces.The police had been following “Artemio”, whose real name is Florindo Eleuterio Flores Hala, with financing from the United State...

The loose-knit online collective Anonymous is going after another US government entity, but not with the hacks, attacks and other assaults on par with their usual Internet infiltrations.Instead, Anonymous is saying that the National Security Agency (NSA) is guilty of propagating fear among Ameri...

The US congratulated here Tuesday the Yemeni people on the "successful" presidential election and "taking the next step in their democratic transition".State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that the high turnout reflects "quite a bit of enthusiasm and ownership by the Yemen...

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey made news over this week by calling an Israeli-led attack on Iran foolish if attempted anytime soon. Israeli officials aren’t impressed, however, and are responding with words of their own.Gen. Dempsey denounced a strike on Iran in the nea...

The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has blocked U.N. experts from inspecting an Iranian military site and refused to cooperate with them in answering allegations of Iranian efforts to design a nuclear weapon.In a statement issued early Wednesday, the IAEA says the U.N. delegation le...

French police arrested Tuesday the former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn in connection with a "sex case."Strauss-Kahn was driven to the police station today in a Mercedes limousine with blacked-out windows before being hustled inside by his legal team, loc...