About 300 Irish Republican Army dissidents backed by "a few nutters and idiots" are trying to tear apart the peace process, Northern Ireland's police commander said Sunday as his detectives interrogated nine people over the killings of two soldiers and a policeman. ...more

March 15, 2009

Chinese officials and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Saturday to step up their cooperation on the global economic crisis and climate change, while treading carefully around the human rights issues that often have strained the U.S. relationship with Beijing. ...more

February 22, 2009

AM Top 40 at that. It was a great introduction to the world of pop music because the playlists were so broad. Almost any genre was game. ...more

September 26, 2008

Raul Agudelo was a fearsome commander of Colombia's largest rebel group, carrying out killings, kidnappings and extortions for more than 20 years. It was the only life he really knew. But he says that going back to that life is now the last thing he wants to do. ...more

August 3, 2008

Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. diplomats of instigating opponents of the communist-run government to hold public protests to mark American Independence Day. ...more

July 3, 2008

LAKEWOOD RANCH - A Jewish family in Lakewood Ranch had a swastika painted on their door this week in what the resident said was clearly a hate crime. ...more

May 8, 2008

Thousands of dissidents silenced under Argentina's military dictatorship - tortured, executed and made to "disappear" in the so-called Dirty War against dissent - are gaining new voice through poetry. ...more

December 28, 2007

A United Nations human rights envoy entered Myanmar for the first time in four years Sunday on a mission to uncover how many people were killed and detained since September's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. ...more

November 12, 2007

The United Nations envoy to Myanmar opened his second visit in recent weeks by meeting Saturday with the top U.N. diplomat in the country, whom the regime just said it wanted to expel. ...more

November 4, 2007