Suspect taken into custody following hourslong standoff in Mattapan, police say
BOSTON — A suspect wanted on warrants was taken into custody after an hourslong standoff on Friday. Boston Police say they ...
18 Pakistani soldiers killed in fighting with separatist rebels in Balochistan
Pakistan's military says 18 troops and 23 separatist rebels have been killed in fighting in northwestern Balochistan province ...
Sick and wounded children begin crossing from Gaza to Egypt in first opening in months
A group of 50 sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing through Gaza’s Rafah crossing into Egypt on Saturday for ...
Hamas frees 3 hostages and Israel begins releasing Palestinian prisoners
Hamas militants released three male hostages being held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday while Israel began releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails as part of a ceasefire deal that has hal ...
Former German President Horst Köhler dies at 81
Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the country by resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country’s ...
Middle East latest: Hamas frees 3 hostages as part of ceasefire deal
Two other hostages — Yarden Bibas, 35, and French-Israeli Ofer Kalderon, 54 — were released earlier Saturday in the southern ...
Takeaways from India's budget that slashes income tax on the salaried middle class to spur growth
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has presented an annual budget that focuses on wooing the salaried middle class with tax cuts and spurring economic growth by boosting agriculture and ...