(Reuters) – Standing at a narrow half-open school gate, two boys in school uniform conduct body searches on fellow pupils and visitors. Another two sit
(Reuters) – Residents in the northeastern Chinese village of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng are still too scared to be named, but they are opening
(Reuters) – Tattooed youths with AK-47s descend from hilltops onto villages pounded by Syrian artillery and break into homes, slit the throats of women and
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he will boost military cooperation with China, including holding more joint exercises, after the United States
(Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad named a Baath Party stalwart to form a new government on Wednesday, signaling no political concessions to a 15-month-old
By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad named a Baath Party stalwart to form a new government on Wednesday, signalling no political
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A pair of suicide bombers struck outside NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 20 civilians and wounding 50,
By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels on Wednesday gave President Bashar al-Assad a 48-hour deadline to comply with an international peace plan otherwise