On surprise Iraq visit, Biden urging end to political crisis
By JOSH LEDERMAN Vice President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Thursday to implore the country’s leaders to resolve a crippling political crisis that has hindered efforts…
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Airstrikes, shelling kill at least 60 in Syria’s Aleppo city
By SARAH EL DEEB A wave of airstrikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, monitors and activists…
Trump vows to put “America first” in foreign policy
By JILL COLVIN and JULIE PACE In a rare formal policy speech, Republican front-runner Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to put American security “above all else” if elected president, warning allies…
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam extradited, charged in France
By ELAINE GANLEY and RAPHAEL SATTER Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam — Europe’s most wanted fugitive until his capture in Belgium last month — has been returned to France and…
Former House speaker sentenced to more than a year in prison
By MICHAEL TARM Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to…
Memories painful on Chernobyl’s 30th anniversary
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and DMYTRO VLASOV As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of…
Al-Qaida says it killed Bangladesh gay activist, friend
The Bangladeshi branch of al-Qaida claimed responsibility Tuesday for the killing of a gay rights activist and his friend, undermining the prime minister’s insistence just hours earlier that her political…
Bob McDonnell case at high court will test reach of bribery laws
By SAM HANANEL In its final argument of the term, the Supreme Court will weigh a former Virginia governor’s contention that doing favors for a businessman who gave him gifts…