ISTANBUL -- Syria's political opposition met Thursday in Istanbul to elect new leadership, choose a government-in-exile and deliberate on a negotiating stance for peace talks, but it hit a controversy when the immediate past president of the ...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- The four nations of the Pacific Alliance may be getting some company as they aim to turn the fledgling bloc into a regional powerhouse and boost trade with Asia. On Thursday, the presidents of Costa Rica and Guatemala said they...
WASHINGTON -- The blossoming IRS scandal over the targeting of conservative groups is provoking new scrutiny and terse questions about the agency's role in shaping and implementing the controversial national health care law, with the biggest ...
MOSCOW -- Abdulbaki Todashev speaks quietly but confidently, without a tremor in his voice, without a shadow of emotion. The father of 12 -- six boys and six girls -- is preparing to bury his eldest son, Ibragim Todashev, shot to death by an FBI ...
WASHINGTON -- Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, was replaced by the agency's acting commissioner on Thursday, a day after she insisted she had done nothing wrong and refused to answer ...
NEW DEHLI -- Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura broke the record for the oldest person to climb Mount Everest when the 80-year-old reached the summit at 9 a.m. Thursday, according to his website.
But the octogenarian may not be able to bask in the ...