A crowded bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in western Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and leaving another nine missing, officials said.
An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
On a visit to Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticizes Russia's plans to start up a nuclear power station in Iran, prompting a defense from a Russian official.
The diplomatic rift between the United States and Israel appeared to widen over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. sources say.
Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from Gaza, killing a Thai farm worker, while the European Union's foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Since U.S., Afghan and NATO forces wrested Marjah from the Taliban, they've been going to extraordinary lengths to cultivate townspeople who had lived under insurgent control for years.
Iraq's postelection count has fueled allegations of fraud. Questions about the vote's validity could undermine U.S. ambitions to set a standard for democracy in the Middle East.
U.S.-backed proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi was rejected by a U.N. wildlife meeting, as nations feared doing so would devastate fishing economies.
