based rights group urged the Philippines Monday to reform a tough anti-abortion law that it says has spawned widespread underground procedures that kill about 1,000 women each year.
An estimated 560,000 women in the Philippines in 2008 sought (...)
Russia spy swap, a retro espionage drama with no equal in the post-Soviet era, produced no obvious winner. Moscow and Washington did, however, manage to turn a mess into a message: Old-school intrigue aside, both countries can find ways to (...)
Russian atomic weapons treaty, hailed by both sides as a historic step in arms control, focuses on relics of the past and not the suitcase bomb or other devices that inspire today's nuclear nightmares.
That is why President Barack Obama is (...)
born radical cleric is alive and well following reports he may have been killed in a Yemeni airstrike against suspected Al-Qaeda hideouts, friends and relatives said Friday.
The government said it targeted a meeting of high-level Al-Qaeda (...)
Russian plan to negotiate deeper cuts in nuclear weapons fits well with each country's shifting focus: the United States toward more reliance on precision conventional weapons, and Russia toward more modern short-range nuclear weapons to offset US (...)
led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with and called in airstrikes on Taleban militants in western Afghanistan, killing and wounding more than 25 insurgents, an Afghan official said Tuesday.
The joint force has been battling militants in Bala (...)
Jason Dorshorst thought somebody ripped off his $4,000 wheelchair in broad daylight while he washed his pickup truck. It turns out that a good Samaritan took it to keep it from being stolen.
Dorshorst, 26, of Plover, washed his vehicle Monday at (...)
