WARSAW, Poland  The Polish president's office says he plans to appoint parliament speaker Ewa Kopacz as the new prime minister on Monday and that he will swear in her new government Sept. 22. Kopacz is to succeed Donald Tusk, who resigned as ...
WARSAW, Poland  The Polish president's office says he plans to appoint parliament speaker Ewa Kopacz as the new prime minister on Monday and that he will swear in her new government Sept. 22. Kopacz is to succeed Donald Tusk, who resigned as ...
WARSAW, Poland  The Polish president's office says he plans to appoint parliament speaker Ewa Kopacz as the new prime minister on Monday and that he will swear in her new government Sept. 22. Kopacz is to succeed Donald Tusk, who resigned as ...
CUPERTINO, Calif.  As computerized wristwatches go, the upcoming Apple Watch looks impressive. I like that it will come in two sizes, so the watch won't feel giant on smaller hands, as some competing watches do. I also like that Apple will offer a variety of ...
LONDON  The wait for the “spare to the heir†is will soon be over. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced Monday that they are expecting their second child, sending the world's media into a tailspin again. The news comes less than 14 months ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica  Rescue crews searching off Jamaica's coast Saturday said they could no longer see debris spotted earlier, stymieing efforts to solve the mystery surrounding a small plane carrying an Upstate New York couple that went on a ghostly ...
They've done this before. Once again, John and Diane Foley appeared on national television Wednesday (Aug. 20), to speak in clear and deliberate voices about their son, conflict journalist James Foley  only this time, it wasn't to plead for his release from ...
A day after traveling to Ferguson, Mo., Attorney General Eric Holder again pledged that the department would conduct a “thorough and fair†investigation into the fatal police shooting of the unarmed black teen Michael Brown. “This attorney general and this ...
When the National Guard arrived in Oxford, Miss., in Little Rock, in Detroit, Los Angeles and New Orleans, its presence and the message that traveled with it was instantly clear. “Whether it was the Vietnam riots, the civil rights era, it made an impression when ...
FERGUSON, Mo.  A look at the key figures in the case of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was unarmed when he was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Aug. 9  a death that has stoked days of violent unrest north of St. Louis. ___.
JERUSALEM  Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed just before a midnight deadline Monday to extend the Gaza cease-fire for an additional 24 hours to try to complete a deal that could lead to a permanent truce. The two sides will continue talking in Cairo.
BAGHDAD  The handwritten letter from Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was personally signed and stamped, and for Iraq's embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, it spelled the end. “I see the need to speed up the selection of a new prime minister who has ...
FISHKHABOUR, Iraq  Burned by the sun, blistered with thirst and weak from exhaustion, thousands of Yazidis fled the mountain on which they had been trapped for a week on Sunday, streaming into Iraq's northern Kurdistan region after a harrowing escape ...
NEW YORK  The collapse of Sprint's push to buy T-Mobile US could mean fresh options in wireless plans and lower prices for U.S. consumers. But in the long run, tougher competition on prices could lead to slower service and slower expansion of coverage ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia  The Saudi Health Ministry says it is testing a man for the Ebola virus after he showed symptoms of the viral hemorrhagic fever following a recent trip to Sierra Leone. The ministry said that the 40-year-old Saudi man showed the ...
DONETSK, Ukraine  Ukrainian troops took control of a checkpoint Tuesday on the western edge of the pro-Russian rebel-held city of Donetsk as the government makes further gradual advances to quash separatist forces in the east. An Associated Press ...
BAGHDAD  Police cars have been repainted to say “Islamic police.†Women are forbidden from wearing bright colors and prints. The homes of Shiites and others have signs stating they are property of the Islamic State. And everyone walks in fear amid a ...
Two Americans stricken by the Ebola virus in West Africa will be transported via private, specially equipped aircraft back to the United States for treatment, the U.S. State Department said Friday. The government did not identify the Americans, but presumably ...
August 1, 2014 4:28 AM EDT  A Taiwanese government agency says that an explosion caused by a gas leak in the country's second city killed more than 20 people, injured more than 200 and sent flames shooting 15 stories into the air. (Reuters) ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank  The cellphone bill will be astronomical this month, but Sami Shaath remains glued to his device. Every two hours, or sooner if he sees a breaking-news alert on television, he calls his brothers and sisters in Gaza to see if they are ...
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