U.S. servicemen board a plane bound for Afghanistan at Manas Air Base near Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, February 13, 2009. Kyrgyzstan's parliament on Thursday approved the closure of a U.S. air base in the country, a key logistic center for U....
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso during a meeting in the Far Eastern city of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk February 18, 2009. TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso met Russian President Dmitry Medv...
Germany will not promise to offer financial support to those insolvent countries in the eurozone, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday. At a joint press conference with visiting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Merke...
Foreign language dictionaries at a Paris bookstore in 2006. Of the 6,900 languages spoken in the world, some 2,500 are endangered, the UN's cultural agency UNESCO said Thursday as it released its latest atlas of world languages. [Agencies] PARIS...
Israeli F16 war jets struck early on Wednesday predawn two targets in southern Gaza Strip towns of KhanYounis and Rafah, severe destruction were caused, no injuries reported, witnesses said. According to the witnesses, an Israeli F16 warplane st...
