World News

Topics also related to World News:

Photo

Tsvangirai denounces Zimbabwe vote as 'huge farce'

HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed Zimbabwe's election as a farce on Thursday after his rival President Robert Mugabe's party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa's oldest head of state. | Video

Recent World News

Spain's Rajoy says he was wrong to trust treasurer in party funding scandal

MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy apologized on Thursday for mishandling a major corruption scandal, but denied he or his center-right People's Party accepted illegal payments and rejected opposition calls to step down.

Spain 7:24am EDT

Italy's top court to issue verdict on Berlusconi fraud appeal

ROME - Five supreme court judges on Thursday considered their verdict in Silvio Berlusconi's appeal against a tax fraud conviction that could end his 20-year domination of Italian politics and throw the government into turmoil if confirmed. | Video

Italy 8:16am EDT

Three suspected militants killed in drone strike south Yemen: official

ADEN - At least three suspected al Qaeda militants were killed on Thursday in east Yemen by missiles fired from an unmanned aircraft, the third such strike in under a week, a government official said.

Yemen 8:58am EDT

Bangladesh court rules top Islamic party illegal

DHAKA - A Bangladesh court on Thursday declared as illegal the country's main Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, effectively banning it from a general election due early next year.

9:16am EDT

Over 1,000 Iraqis killed in July, highest monthly toll since 2008: U.N.

BAGHDAD - More than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in sectarian violence in July, the highest monthly death toll since 2008, the United Nations said on Thursday, as Sunni Islamist groups stepped up their insurgency against Iraq's Shi'ite-led government.

United Nations, Iraq 7:44am EDT