LONDON – British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London yesterday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited today to the United States to face money-laundering charges, just days after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s genocide conviction was overturned.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London today, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday shifted the United States away from a “boundless global war on terror,” restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America’s long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end.
GRAPEVINE, Texas, (Reuters) – The Boy Scouts of America voted yesterday to lift a century-old ban on openly gay scouts in a major victory for gay rights activists, but the decision means a sea of change for an organization that depends heavily on faith-based groups.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill enjoyed an alcohol-fuelled all-nighter in Moscow as World War Two was in full swing, previously secret files have revealed.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy.
ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A special Federal Bureau of Investigation team from Washington on Thursday began reviewing the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, a day after he was shot and killed by an agent during questioning in Orlando.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama today shifted the United States away from a “boundless global war on terror,” restricting deadly U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British authorities have established that one and possibly both of the men who hacked a soldier to death on a London street was born in Britain of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said today.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street yesterday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
KINSHASA, (Reuters) – The World Bank pledged $1 billion yesterday to fund development in central Africa’s Great Lakes region in return for peace, but fresh fighting in eastern Congo underscored the challenges facing the area.
ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his possible links to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed by a federal agent in Florida yesterday after he suddenly turned violent, the FBI said.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A South African government report released yesterday implicated President Jacob Zuma in a scandal over a plane chartered by rich friends of his which landed at a military base without proper permission.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday said for the first time that he was “very sorry” about a growing expenses scandal that threatens to derail his Conservative government after seven years in power.
MOORE, Okla., (Reuters) – Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.
ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An FBI agent shot and killed a man of Chechen origin who turned violent while being questioned today about his connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings.
LONDON (Reuters) – A man was hacked to death in a street near an army barracks in London today in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a politically motivated attack.
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of his government’s emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a man in south London, his office said today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S.
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