Dhaka, May 14 (UNB) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has launched a massive security plan aimed at curbing street crime. Under operation "Safe Homeland", 3,000 soldiers will patrol the streets of the capital ...

BEIJING, May 14 (AP/UNB) - An international rights group says police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in prostitution. Hu...

MOSCOW, May 14 (AP/UNB) - A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man international crew has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, Tom Marshburn of NASA and Roman Romane...

TOKYO, May 14 (AP/UNB) - Osaka's outspoken mayor has said the system in which Asian women were forced to become wartime prostitutes before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the Japanese mi...

MANILA, May 14 (AP/UNB) - A film that weaves together stories of the anguish and desperation of American and Filipino soldiers during the notorious Bataan Death March could have been shot on location in a large-scale pro...

RAIWIND, May 14 (AP/UNB) — Pakistan's presumptive new prime minister said Monday that Islamabad has "good relations" with the United States, but called the CIA's drone campaign in the country's tribal region a chall...

UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (AP/UNB) - The United States said Monday it will refuse to send its ambassador to any meeting of the U.N. forum where nuclear disarmament is negotiated when it's chaired by Iran because countries u...

MANILA, May 14 (AP/UNB) - Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption...

MINNEAPOLIS, May 14 (AP/UNB) - A man who authorities say played a key role in funneling young men from Minnesota to a terrorist group in Somalia was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison, while another man who was a foo...

CANBERRA, May 14 (AP/UNB) - Australia's treasurer says his economic blueprint for the fiscal year ahead will support jobs and growth without European-style austerity measures aimed at reining in the national deficit. Tr...