Interview: Gorbachev says US was short-sighted on Soviets
By KATE DE PURY and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV As the Soviet Union was breaking up 25 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev expected the United States and its Western allies to provide vital…
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Fidel Castro, who defied US for 50 years, dies at 90 in Cuba
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and PETER ORSI Fidel Castro, who led his bearded rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during…
Turkish official: Attackers were from Russia, Central Asia
By DOMINIQUE SOGUEL and SUZAN FRASER As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried…
Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus wins Nobel literature prize
By KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and…
Obama: Critics of Iran nuclear deal ‘selling a fantasy’
President Barack Obama assailed critics of his Iran nuclear deal Wednesday as “selling a fantasy” to the American people, warning Congress that blocking the accord would damage the nation’s credibility…
Obama: Iran vote most important intl. debate since Iraq war
By JULIE PACE President Barack Obama is casting a looming congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal as the nation’s most consequential foreign policy debate since the authorization of the…
NEW EURO MEMBER LATVIA BRINGS DIRTY MONEY HEADACHE
Associated Press In this photo taken Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, newly minted Latvian Euro coins in are laid out for display in Riga, Latvia. When Latvia adopts the euro on…
NIXON TAPES REVEAL PRIVATE TALK WITH SOVIET LEADER
By GILLIAN FLACCUS FILE – In this April 29, 1974, file photo, President Richard M. Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes after he announced during a…