World/Local News

MANAMA, Bahrain—Hundreds of members of Bahrain’s Shiite Muslim majority protested outside the U.S. Embassy on Monday to appeal for Washington to back their campaign for greater political freedom. The embassy said staff met with the […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague says he will upgrade the status of Palestinian diplomats in London. Hague told lawmakers on Monday that the Palestinian representation would be recognized as a full diplomatic mission. It had […] […]

STERLING, Va. — As a Republican congressman prepares to open hearings on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser visited a mosque here Sunday to reassure Muslims that “we […] […]

VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday lamented the deaths and humanitarian crisis caused by the fighting in Libya between forces loyal to longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi and those demanding his ouster. “My heartfelt thoughts go […] […]

LIBYA’s Colonel Gaddafi has dramatically escalated his military campaign to attempt to crush the two-week uprising against his regime. Colonel Gaddafi launched his biggest counter-offensive yet against opposition forces to try to deliver a knockout […] […]

PRESSURE is mounting on the Duke of York and his future as a British envoy over his friendship with a convicted paedophile. The FBI is reportedly reopening an investigation into Prince Andrew’s friend Jeffrey Epstein, […] […]

THEY flew in at night by helicopter: six SAS soldiers and two diplomats, armed and apparently carrying explosives and false passports, with a mission to find Libya’s revolutionary leaders and establish a way to help […] […]

MONTREAL—Amid increasingly strident criticisms of multiculturalism, both in Canada and abroad, a group of Quebec intellectuals is proposing an alternative that could save an idea that has become part of the national fabric. Interculturalism is […] […]

RAS LANUF, LIBYA—He had a hole in his leg and a smile on his face. And at the end of a day that saw Moammar Gadhafi unleash heavy armour and worse against rebel forces on […] […]

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi claims he will prove in court that Karima el-Mahroug, a Moroccan belly dancer, was not underage when he allegedly paid her for sex at one of his mansions. Berlusconi, 74, […] […]