International

(BBC)--US President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Afghanistan's leader Hamid Karzai vowing to respect his nation's sovereignty, as Afghan elders debate a crucial post-2014 security pact. Mr Obama vows US forces will not enter Afghan…

Port Of Spain, Trinidad (WINN) -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has again been harshly criticized by Port of Spain-based academic Professor Norman Girvan, over the Dominican Republic citizenship matter. Girvan expressed disappointment…

(BBC)--Eleven Egyptian military personnel have been killed and dozens more wounded in a car bomb attack near the North Sinai city of el-Arish. Al-Masri al-Youm newspaper said a convoy of buses carrying infantry soldiers was hit by a…

(BBC)--A US white supremacist who targeted black and Jewish people in a nationwide killing spree has been put to death in the US state of Missouri. Joseph Franklin was executed for shooting dead a man and wounding two others outside a…

(BBC)--Iran's Supreme Leader has warned his country will not step back "one iota" from its nuclear rights, as it resumes talks with world powers in Geneva. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he would not intervene directly in the negotiations,…

(BBC) A manhunt has been launched in Paris after a gunman attacked offices of the newspaper Liberation and opened fire outside the bank Societe Generale. A photographer, 27, was seriously hurt at Liberation and a motorist was forced to…

(BBC) A woman has pleaded guilty to murdering three men whose bodies were found in ditches in Cambridgeshire. The bodies of Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, Kevin Lee, 48, and John Chapman, 56, were found in ditches 10 miles (16km) apart in…

(BBC) Powerful tornadoes have swept through the US Midwest, destroying buildings and overturning vehicles in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. At least six people were killed, all in Illinois, and it is feared that several…

(BBC) China is to relax its policy of restricting most couples to having only a single child, state media say. In future, families will be allowed two children if one parent is an only child, says the Xinhua news agency. The one-child…

(BBC) David Cameron has said his symbolic visit to the north of Sri Lanka has "drawn attention to the plight" of the Tamil minority in the country. The Tamils' treatment at the end of the country's civil war dominated the run-up to the…

(BBC) US President Barack Obama has announced a one-year reprieve for millions of Americans facing cancelled insurance coverage under his healthcare law. A contrite Mr Obama said his administration "fumbled the rollout" of his flagship…

(BBC) The aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious will be sent to help people affected by the typhoon in the Philippines, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Speaking on a visit to India, Mr Cameron also said the UK government had now given…

(BBC) The Obama administration has said barely 27,000 Americans enrolled for health insurance through its troubled federal website in the first month. About 106,000 people were insured in total, most of them through the state-run websites.…

(BBC) Former German President Christian Wulff is going on trial accused of receiving and granting favours in office. He is alleged to have accepted the payment of hotel bills by a film producer in return for lobbying while he was premier…

(BBC) The Philippine government says it is facing its biggest ever logistical challenge after Typhoon Haiyan, which has affected up to 11 million people. Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras said the government had been overwhelmed by the…