PARIS -- Residents of a sleepy French village in Bordeaux have been left dumbfounded after discovering their local 18th-century chateau was completely bulldozed "by mistake."The mayor's office in Yvrac said Wednesday that workers who were hired to renovate the grand 13,000-square-meter ...
BOSTON— With protests at U.S. embassies and four Americans dead, Mitt Romney is suddenly facing a presidential election focused on a foreign policy crisis he gambled wouldn’t happen.It did — and at a bad time for the GOP hopeful. Momentum in the race is on President Barack Obama’s side ...
TRIPOLI, Libya— The American ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed when a mob of protesters and gunmen overwhelmed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, setting fire to it in outrage over a film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Libya’s new president apologized ...
KABUL, Afghanistan— Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least 10 civilians and wounded another 30 at a funeral for a village elder in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan.The deputy police chief for Nangarhar province, Jamil Shamal, says the attack took place on Tuesday in the ...
KABUL, Afghanistan— Seven American troops and four Afghans died in a Black Hawk helicopter crash on Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the NATO military coalition said. The Taliban claimed their fighters shot down the aircraft.The crash marked another deadly day for the U.S. in Afghanistan, ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan-- A Taliban suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival group Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing at least five fighters in the second such bombing this month, militants and a government official said.Clashes among insurgents are common along the Afghan border, ...