Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders met Saturday for the first time since the eruption of a bitter political and legal controversy that stoked rumors of a military coup and could still topple the precariously weak …

President Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected by a comfortable margin on Saturday, fending off a challenge from his main rival, Tsai Ing-wen, who criticized his handling of the economy but also sought to exploit fears among …

Chinese security forces on Saturday fired into a crowd of Tibetans in a restive area of Sichuan Province after they tried to take away the body of a Tibetan man who had died after setting …

The Establishment is pushing hard for the nomination of former Gov. Mitt Romney. The national news media and pundits are pushing the narrative that Romney is the provisional winner of the GOP primary.  So-called “voices …

In a Washington Whispers poll released yesterday, twice as many Americans said they fear Obama’s reelection as said they fear he won’t be reelected. U.S. News reports:

Israeli and Palestinian officials met in the Jordanian capital on Monday, their second session in less than a week, after peace talks had been stalled for more than a year.

In his first public address in months, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria lashed out on Tuesday at the Arab League for isolating his country, mocked Syrian rebels as traitors and vowed to subdue what he …

In the second diplomacy-tinged sea rescue in less than a week, a vessel on patrol with the Navy’s Fifth Fleet near the Persian Gulf saved a group of distressed Iranian mariners on Tuesday, pulling them …

Israel’s military chief said on Tuesday that the army was preparing for a potential influx of refugees into the Golan Heights from Syria with the demise of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, which he …

Police in Mexico say they have found 13 bodies piled up at a petrol station in the western state of Michoacan.