International

JOS, Nigeria (AP)-- Islamic militants killed 48 villagers in northeastern Nigeria near the town where they kidnapped 300 schoolgirls, and the US said Wednesday it was sending in 80 military personnel to expand the drone search for the…

SHANGHAI (AP) — China signed a landmark US$400 billion deal Wednesday to buy natural gas from Russia, binding Moscow more closely to Beijing at a time when President Vladimir Putin's relations with the West have deteriorated to the lowest…

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani military carried out airstrikes in the countries northwest early Wednesday, targeting alleged militant hideouts in the volatile region. In a statement, the military said that there were "reports…

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- With new armed threat breathing down its neck, Libya's discordant government made a snap announcement on Tuesday -- elections will be held in just over a month. The move was intended to stem a spike in violence that…

(CNN) -- Two New York City fourth-graders were arrested Tuesday after allegedly putting poison in a teacher's water bottle, police said. The two boys, ages 9 and 12, allegedly poisoned the teacher's water Monday afternoon, causing her to…

KINGSBURY, New York (AP) — Authorities say a 30-year-old man and a six-year-old boy were fishing from a New York railroad trestle when they were killed by a passenger train. The Washington County Sheriff's Office says in a news release…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan court on Monday sentenced a nurse to three years in jail after finding her guilty of criminal negligence for allegedly trying to infect her patient with HIV. The conviction came despite the work of…

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jace, who played a Los Angeles cop in TV's "The Shield," has been charged in the fatal shooting of his wife, police said Tuesday. April Jace, 40, was found shot to death in her south Los Angeles home by police…

(CNN) -- As outrage grows over a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christianity, the government defended the verdict, but said it's only preliminary. A Khartoum court this week convicted Meriam Yehya Ibrahim,…

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Armed men clashed with Ukrainian border guards Saturday after a separatist leader was detained at a checkpoint. He was trying to re-enter the country from Russia, the Ukrainian Border Service said. The incident is…

(CNN) -- The United States and China put on sharp display Thursday their continuing differences over territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas, disputes that are now boiling over into violence. In a joint news conference at the…

(CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed in two explosions Friday in central Nairobi, the Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre said via Twitter. As many as 70 people were wounded at the Gikomba market, and ambulances evacuated the…

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- On the outskirts of Zimbabwe's capital, a taxi minivan drives on a dirt road toward a man in a police uniform who suddenly thumps the windshield with a club, cracking the glass and making those inside the vehicle…

Donetsk, Ukraine (CNN) -- With the clock ticking down ahead of Ukraine's presidential elections, it's time to talk. But it's not thought the pro-Russian separatists at the center of Ukraine's ongoing turmoil are invited to sit at the table.…

Soma, Turkey (CNN) -- As a crowd milled around with downcast eyes outside a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday, a miner dashed their hopes that his co-workers still stuck inside would make it out alive. There are 200 of them trapped…