World/Local News

TEHRAN, IRAN—President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired Iran’s foreign minister Monday, a move that caught many here by surprise and appeared to reflect a strengthening of the president’s power. Ahmadinejad said in a presidential order he had […] […]

WASHINGTON—Richard Holbrooke, a brilliant and feisty U.S. diplomat who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan and served as U.S. President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan […] […]

BRITISH police have raided a property near London as part of a probe into a fatal blast in Stockholm, which Swedish investigators say was a “terrorist crime”. The Swedish capital was hit by twin explosions […] […]

AN Afghan army official says the six NATO troops who were killed in a suicide attack yesterday were Americans. An explosives-packed minibus blew up at the entrance of a joint NATO-Afghan base in southern Afghanistan […] […]

RAMLE, Israel—Israeli prison authorities on Sunday released a radical Muslim leader after serving a five-month term for assaulting a policeman. Hundreds of people greeted Sheik Raed Salah as he was freed from prison in this […] […]

VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI, who spent his youth in Hitler’s Germany, says dictators boast that they will change the world, but just bring destruction. The pontiff’s reflections on what he calls history’s “false prophets” came […] […]

CITRONELLE, Alabama—The woman accused of torturing two young children who were later killed and dumped in rural Mississippi and Alabama was expected to return to Alabama by extradition on Sunday to face charges. Heather Leavell-Keaton […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaican police say they have discovered three bodies buried in shallow graves at a construction site outside the capital and expect to find more. Assistant Police Commissioner Les Green says the bodies were found […] […]

BARACK Obama has offered his strongest condemnation yet of WikiLeaks’ “deplorable” documents dump, as Julian Assange’s supporters called for protests to press for his release. In a call to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, […] […]

GUADALAJARA MEXICO—Suspected drug cartel gunmen attacked each other during annual religious celebrations in a small Mexican town, killing 11 people and wounding 22 others, local authorities said Saturday. The rival gangs fired machine guns into […] […]