Shia Muslims around the world were in mourning today after the death in Lebanon of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a cleric revered for bridging religious divides but whose opposition to US and Israeli policy, and support for Hezbollah, ...

Jewish settlements issue has caused serious crisis in US-Israel relations, and Mr. Netanyahu hopes to mend fences when he meets Mr Obama Photo: AP Israel is setting out its strategy for a White House summit on Tuesday.

WARSAW, Poland - Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Bronislaw Komorowski with a slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

BUKAVU, DR Congo - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila on Sunday declared two days of mourning for 235 people who burned to death when a fuel truck exploded.

BAGHDAD -- Vice President Biden commemorated Independence Day with the troops at a US base in Baghdad before he planned to meet with two Iraqi leaders vying for Iraq's top job.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Azerbaijan on Sunday, the US's Independence Day, following stops in Kiev on Friday and Poland on Saturday.

After a South African court dropped a marijuana-smoking case against Paris Hilton, the heiress, 29, took to her Twitter page to reassure her fans that "everything is fine.

BAGHDAD --- In a brazen suicide bombing Sunday, a female bomber killed at least five people and wounded 37 others in the once restive Sunni province of Anbar.

BEIJING - Teams of police armed with guns and batons patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang on Sunday, part of stringent security precautions put in place ahead of the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades.

America is infested with more Russian spies than at any point in history, say former intelligence agents who spoke with The Post. "I would say there are a few thousand here," said Boris Korczak, a former double agent who worked for the CIA, ...

MEXICO CITY—Voters in 14 Mexican states lined up Sunday to cast ballots in local elections that could help establish a front-runner for the 2012 presidential race, in an atmosphere of heightened tension over the potential influence of ...

KRAKOW, Poland - Intolerant governments across the globe are "slowly crushing" activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.

Photo: AP Kyrgyzstan's provisional leader Roza Otunbayeva was sworn in as president Saturday, making her the first female president in the history of ex-Soviet Central Asia.

ISTANBUL - Syrian security officials have detained 400 people suspected of links to the Kurdish separatist group PKK, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported on Thursday.

The sub was built in a clandestine dry dock in Ecuador's jungle along a waterway leading to the Pacific Ocean. It has long been the stuff of drug-trafficking legend, but federal authorities announced on Saturday that they have helped ...

BEIJING - A leading Tibetan environmentalist has been jailed for subversion, the third such verdict amid an apparent crackdown on intellectuals in the Himalayan region, activists said Sunday.

Shown here are Sen. John McCain, left, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, center, and Sen. Jim DeMint, right. (AP Photos) Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was scrambling to contain the fallout over the holiday weekend from his remarks ...

WASHINGTON - Anna Chapman, the 28-year-old flamed-haired beauty arrested in the United States last week along with several other alleged Russian spies, was dating a 60-year-old Israeli divorced father named Michel Bittan, the New York Daily News ...