International

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…

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Police say a 17-year-old boy has been charged with aggravated assault after five people were shot near an Atlanta high school. Atlanta police officer John Chafee said in a statement early Wednesday that Marcellus…

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Militants carried out a deadly attack on a government building in eastern Afghanistan and fired rockets near Kabul's main airport Monday as the Taliban began their annual spring offensive. An armed group stormed…

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- Oscar Pistorius suffers an anxiety disorder stemming from his double amputation as an infant and his unstable parents, a psychiatrist testified at the murder trial of the South African track star Monday.…

MIAMI (CMC) – The United States Coast Guard says it continues to make a dent in the illegal drug trade, seizing an estimated US$20 million worth of cocaine during operations at sea in the Caribbean. It said 1,327 pounds of cocaine was…

--US First Lady Michelle Obama has said the mass kidnap of Nigerian schoolgirls is part of a wider pattern of threats and intimidation facing girls around the world who pursue an education. She said she and her husband Barack Obama were…

--France and Germany have threatened Russia with further sanctions if Ukraine's presidential election on 25 May fails to go ahead. President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a statement they feared further…

Bangkok (CNN) -- Ousted Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra faces impeachment by her country's Senate, following an announcement by an anti-corruption body the day after a top court removed her from office. Members of the National…

(CNN) -- Syrian rebels bombed a hotel used as a base for government forces, the latest massive attack in the seesaw battle for the country's largest city. The Islamic Front, Syria's most powerful rebel alliance, claimed responsibility for…

(CNN) -- A truce between Syrian government and rebel forces in the strategic and symbolic city of Homs has gone into effect, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday. An operation to evacuate opposition fighters…

Bangkok (CNN) -- Thailand's Constitutional Court has dismissed caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office, ruling that she is guilty of violating the country's constitution for reassigning a senior security official in 2011.…

Washington (CNN) -- Flooded rail lines. Bigger, more frequent droughts. A rash of wildfires. Those are some of the alarming predictions in a White House climate change report released Tuesday, part of President Barack Obama's broader…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The girls in the school dorm could hear the sound of gunshots from a nearby town. So when armed men in uniforms burst in and promised to rescue them, at first they were relieved. "Don't worry, we're soldiers," one…