Google v France in book-scanning battle
A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country’s literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.
Recent threats and attacks from militant groups have made it almost impossible for the World Food Program to get food to hungry people in southern Somaila, the aid agency said Tuesday.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the Iraq War Inquiry he was determined to stand “shoulder-to-shoulder” with the U.S., despite differences in their main justification for war.
(CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Copenhagen early Thursday morning amid concerns that time is running out at the climate change summit for world leaders to agree a deal to combat global warming.
The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 Monday after members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked a mostly Christian town south of the city of Jos, officials said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday during a quick visit to Moscow to lobby for stronger sanctions on Iran.
Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident.
The U.S. government is delaying “tens of millions” of dollars in crucial humanitarian aid over concerns that the money is being diverted to a notorious militant group, a senior U.N. official said.
France closed its embassy in Yemen to the public Monday, citing ongoing threats from al Qaeda.
A Somali man believed to have ties to terrorist groups was shot as he allegedly tried to enter the home of Danish political cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, police said.
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson announces he is to step down from his post temporarily following the scandal surrounding his wife’s affair with a teenager.
Some former members of the Irish Republican Army — “small in number” but “ruthless” — are trying to undermine the agreement that ended 30 years of deadly violence in Northern Ireland, a former deputy director of the CIA said.
Investigators probing the derailment of an express train in Russia say they have found “elements of an explosive device” at the site.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy threw his weight behind Barack Obama’s bank reform plan as he delivered his keynote speech at the 40th World Economic Forum at Davos Wednesday.
Disaster officials rushed food and shelter to southeastern Turkey on Tuesday after a strong earthquake rattled the area a day earlier, killing at least 51 people and injuring dozens more.
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, sporting a foam clown nose, landed back on Earth after a $35 million working vacation at the international space station, a Russian report said.
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