LANZAROTE, Spain - Spain said Moroccan authorities Saturday again refused to allow Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar to return home, a decision it said it deeply regrets. The decision risked worsening the already tense diplomatic relations
PARIS - Audrey Hepburn fans got a sneak peak Tuesday of dozens of garments and personal effects once belonging to the movie star that will hit the auction blocks next week. A Givenchy black lace dress that Hepburn wore in How to Steal a Million an
BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made it a personal priority to rein in European Union proposals to regulate financial services from Brussels, a source said Thursday. Britain's concerns on this area remain -- it's obviously going to go t
NEW DELHI - India has refused entry to a former US naval ship heading for a scrap yard on its west coast, citing environmental and pollution concerns, a local official said. The Platinum II, anchored off the western Gujarat coast, was ordered to re
JOHANNESBURG - At the last minute, Zimbabwe on Wednesday blocked the United Nations' torture investigator from visiting the country where opponents to President Robert Mugabe have been attacked and harassed, but he vowed to go anyway at the invitati
GENEVA - The United Nations says Zimbabwe's government has blocked a visit by the world body's torture investigator who was to examine alleged abuses of opposition supporters and others. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA The Saudi king on Monday waived a flogging sentence against a female journalist who had been convicted as part of a crackdown on a controversial Lebanese television network.On Saturday, Rozana al-Yami, 22, was to 60 lashes by
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan briefly took two news channels off the air Saturday as they covered attempts by soldiers to capture two militants who broke into army headquarters following an attack on the complex. Geo and SAMA channels, known for critical rep
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