BRUSSELS  – US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on Wednesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the head of Pakistan’s armed forces and Pakistan’s foreign minister. In Brussels for a gathering of NATO foreign ministers [...]

LONDON  - Save the Children on Wednesday urged action after releasing a report claiming that most rape and sexual abuse victims in many of the world’s conflict zones were children. The report, entitled “Crimes Against Children”, [...]

LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87, following a stroke. Family spokesman Lord Tim Bell said Britain’s only female prime minister died peacefully on Monday morning. Within minutes of the [...]

LONDON  – British military, political and academic figures on Saturday called on the government not to “abandon” the Afghan interpreters for the troops when they pull out of the country. In a letter to The Times newspaper, [...]

London,  US lawmaker Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) answered a town-hall question about his position on transvaginal ultrasounds by joking that he hadn”t had one, according to audio posted by Wisconsin Democrats. When a questioner asked Duffy about [...]

LONDON  – Dozens of failed Tamil asylum seekers who were due to be sent back to Sri Lanka on Thursday can stay in Britain after a court blocked their deportation over fears of torture, their lawyers said. The High Court in London blocked [...]

BRUSSELS – NATO may station up to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan to train and assist Kabul’s forces after its combat mission against the Taliban ends there in 2014, US officials said Friday. US Pentagon spokesman George Little said [...]

London, One in ten women will consider separating from a man who is too affectionate in front of other people, a study has found. According to the survey of 2,000 people, more than a quarter of people are too embarrassed to hug or even hold [...]

Egypt’s top Muslim cleric told visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday that his Shi’ite-led government must refrain from interfering in the affairs of Gulf Arab states and must give full rights to Sunnis living in [...]

LONDON  – Microsoft founder Bill Gates said the battle to eradicate polio was one of the toughest the world has faced, but said it could be conquered by 2018. Delivering the annual Richard Dimbleby lecture in London on Tuesday, Gates, [...]