BEIJING - For a second straight year, the Chinese government has increased security across parts of the vast Tibetan plateau to dissuade any Tibetans from holding protests this week to mark the anniversaries of ethnic uprisings.

AP BRUSSELS -- Russia's envoy to NATO is criticizing the alliance's military strategy in Afghanistan - where the emphasis has shifted away from fighting drug trafficking - saying the resulting surge in heroin smuggling is endangering Russia's national ...

GREECE Rioters clash with police in Athens during a demonstration against the financially crippled Greek government's austerity plan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan met with Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani here on Thursday in a show of public friendship, with both leaders stressing that stability for their countries hinged on mutual ...

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, accompanied by his wife, Cecilia Morel, during his inauguration ceremony at the Congress in Valparaiso on Thursday.

SYDNEY - Two Australian teenagers have been charged over a vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist who was knocked out of his wheelchair and battered with a metal bar, police said on Thursday.

The task of knocking down, smashing apart and hauling away the mountain range of rubble left by the Jan. 12 earthquake will take years and cost as much as $1 billion.

CAIRO - Sheik Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Egypt's chief religious official and leader of Al Azhar, the oldest and most prestigious center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, died Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, ...

Photo: AP Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Washington with his own words, as he appeared at a news conference alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.

Photo: AP US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says US forces in Afghanistan may start handing over security responsibilities to Afghan authorities before the July 2011 target date.