Category: 4. World

Georgian riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons during clashes with protesters in the capital, Tbilisi, late Saturday that followed municipal elections shunned by opposition parties.

Police dispersed demonstrators who attempted to…

Jerusalem
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On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters. Their demand: an end to the siege…

Ballot boxes have closed across Syria in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime, as counting continued late into Sunday evening in what officials described as a defining…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Priscilla formed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on Saturday.

The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Priscilla was a “large tropical storm,” with…

Activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla who have been detained in Israel since their flotilla was intercepted on its way to Gaza earlier this week are being mistreated by the Israeli Prison Service, legal aid organization Adalah claimed on…

Sanae Takaichi, the pro-stimulus conservative poised to become Japan’s first female prime minister, is an energetic nationalist with a soft spot for the hard-nosed politics of Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and the heavy metal music of Iron…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli army vehicle rumbles through the empty streets of a shattered neighborhood in Gaza City, and with help from a video camera, a soldier spots people standing inside…