Washington, May 19 (AP/UNB) - A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting conservative groups "when it came out in the news." Speaking Sunday on CN...

Vietnam, May 19 (AP/UNB) - A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channel...

Pakistan, May 19 (AP/UNB) - Pakistan is holding a repeat election in an upmarket area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging. The vote is going ahead Sunday despite the shootin...

Moscow, May 19 (AP/UNB) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early June.  The U.S. and Russ...

Afghanistan, May 19 (AP/UNB) - An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, In...

Beijing, May 19 (AP/UNB) - A Chinese state media report and a boat owner say unidentified North Koreans have taken one of his fishing boats and its crew and are demanding a ransom. Yu Xuejun said on a verified microblog...

Germany, May 19 (AP/UNB) - Several hundred Fortuna Duesseldorf supporters clashed with police after their team was relegated from the Bundesliga with a 3-0 loss in Hannover. Hannover police said Sunday that 10 officers ...

Kenya, May 19 (AP/UNB) - A police official in Nairobi says police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers. Augustine Nthumbi, the officer in charge of the Git...

Jordan, May 19 (AP/UNB)- Syrian activists say government airstrikes and heavy shelling of a strategic town near the Lebanese border have killed at least 16 people, including rebel fighters. The rebel-held Qusair is home...

South Korea, May 19 (AP/UNB)- South Korea says North Korea has fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area. The South's Defense Ministry says th...