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Tunisia militants kill four police in checkpoint attack
Around 20 Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint in Algeria\'s central Kasserine region, killing four police officers and stealing their weapons, the government ...Ukraine forces withdraw from besieged town
Government forces started pulling out of a town in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists which Europe ...Church diplomacy: Greece, Russia and beyond
The Syriza-dominated government is a loner in the EU. However, not far away, ...Despite Ukraine cease-fire, violence continues
Pro-Russian rebels pounded encircled Ukrainian government forces on Monday and Kiev said it would not pull back heavy guns while a truce ...Video purports to show Islamic State militants in Libya beheading Christian hostages
A video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages was released Sunday by militants in Libya affiliated with the ...Poet laureate Philip Levine dies at age 87
Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died Saturday. ...35 IS jihadists killed in clashes with Syria Kurds
At least 35 Islamic State jihadists were killed on Sunday in clashes with Syrian Kurdish fighters around the flashpoint town of Kobane, ...Cuba: Land of Opportunity
What can I be sure of after only one week ...Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after 21 Egyptians beheaded
Egypt\'s air force bombed Islamic State targets inside Libya on Monday, a day after the group released a video showed the beheading ...Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Nigerian bus station
A female suicide bomber blew herself up at a crowded bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu on Sunday, killing ...




