World/Local News

LAS VEGAS—Two Las Vegas men pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with a Navy SEAL and another man to sell machine guns and other weapons smuggled into the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan, the top federal […] […]

BEIJING—A Uighur journalist who worked for an official Chinese radio service was sentenced to life imprisonment for transmitting information about the 2009 ethnic riots in western China—one of dozens jailed since the violence, an overseas […] […]

OTTAWA—Canada may have been the target of a high-pressure sales job to buy the controversial F-35 fighter by a U.S. administration known to use “forceful” diplomacy to cement a deal, leaked diplomatic cables suggest. Memos […] […]

He stepped on the Florida bus as Jack Owens and arrived in Fort Erie as John Morrison. The man walked into Canadian customs like the snowbird he wasn’t. He looked the agents in the eyes […] […]

WIKILEAKS chief Julian Assange says there is a “high chance” he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on espionage charges. The Australian is on bail in […] […]

Ivory Coast appeared to be sliding back into civil war yesterday as foreign nationals were warned to leave the country, while government-backed “death squads” were reported to be abducting opposition supporters. The international community stepped […] […]

Package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome this morning, wounding the two people who opened them. The attacks triggered heightened security checks at diplomatic missions just as holiday deliveries deluge their […] […]

ASUNCION, Paraguay—The Paraguayan government worked closely with the DEA earlier this year to expand its capacity to spy on cell phone calls to confront the threat posed by a band of leftist rebels, according to […] […]

LONDON—British police say they have made changes in their royal protection procedures after student protesters attacked the car of Prince Charles and his wife. Police say the changes were immediately put into place following a […] […]

WASHINGTON — The Army has launched a wide-ranging investigation into how a private suspected of downloading thousands of secret reports and diplomatic cables and handing them over to WikiLeaks was able to do so and […] […]