Posted: 7:26 PM Dominican Deputy Minister of Public Health Rafael Schiffino says the two governments are working on a project to wipe out the disease on Hispaniola by 2022.

Posted: 7:24 PM The order asks the prosecutor general and the military prosecutor to prepare a list of names of all those who may benefit from the pardon within a month from the decree's issuance.

Posted: 7:23 PM The pro-government Al-Ikhbariya channel says the sound of Monday's blast could be heard across Damascus.

Posted: 6:56 AM All the police personnel on duty in a Mexican border town the day the nephew of a state governor was shot to death have been taken by federal troops to the state capital for questioning.

Posted: 6:54 AM Syrian state TV says soldiers have clashed with two armed groups that infiltrated from Lebanon, killing several of them.

Posted: 6:51 AM French President Francois Hollande is meeting with leaders of the country's Jewish community Sunday after blank bullets were fired on a synagogue west of Paris, and amid renewed concerns about anti-Semitism in France.

Posted: 6:43 AM Americans in Islamabad, Pakistan are being warned to stay away from government buildings and several major hotels in the city because of the threat of terrorism.

Posted: 8:51 AM The U.N. Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against al-Qaida has removed a Saudi businessman from its blacklist.

Posted: 8:32 AM Authorities say a single batch of deep-frozen strawberries appears to have been behind an outbreak of gastroenteritis in eastern Germany that hit more than 11,000 people, mostly children at schools and day-care centers.

Posted: 8:23 AM It's a conviction and an 18-month sentence today for the pope's butler at his trial on charges of stealing private documents and leaking them to a journalist.

Posted: 8:14 AM A police union official says anti-terrorism forces have raided several cities across France, and a suspect was killed in a shootout with police.

Posted: 6:55 PM The annual march reflects the friendly relationship between evangelical Christians and the Jewish state.

Posted: 6:54 PM The protesters, from the city of Zawiya, stormed the chamber, chanting slogans against recently elected Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur.

Posted: 6:53 PM Earlier today, Turkey's Parliament approved a bill authorizing military operations against Syria, and Turkish forces have been firing at targets there for a second day.

Posted: 6:51 PM Anouar Ouled Ali and Mondher Charni said Thursday that several of the 87 people now held in custody risk capital punishment on charges including attacks against state security. T

Posted: 6:59 PM Turkish artillery fired on Syrian targets after deadly shelling from Syria hit a Turkish border town on Wednesday.

Posted: 6:54 PM Authorities believe students may have been behind the attacks in Mubi, but that town and the surrounding region also have suffered from a spate of killings by the Boko Haram radical Islamist sect.

Posted: 6:53 PM Pope Benedict XVI's onetime butler declared Tuesday he was innocent of a charge of aggravated theft of the pope's private correspondence.

Posted: 6:53 PM The unidentified brothers, who are Kurdish refugees, were involved with a group set up by a Norway-based Islamist cleric, Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, also known as Mullah Krekar.

Posted: 6:50 PM The boat was carrying about 120 people when the accident happened near Lamma Island, off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island, a government statement said.

Posted: 6:49 PM The collapse of the currency is a sign of the impact of Western sanctions imposed over Iran's nuclear program.

Posted: 6:47 PM Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon lashed out at the United States in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Monday, blaming Washington's "hostile" policy toward North Korea for a "vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation" that has brought the peninsula close to a nuclear conflict.

Posted: 8:34 AM Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims angry over an alleged derogatory photo of the Islamic holy book Quran on Facebook set fires in at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes near the southern border with Myanmar, authorities said Sunday.

Posted: 8:30 AM Thai police believe Islamist insurgents fired grenades at a fair in southern Thailand, injuring 30 people, in anger over government efforts to win over local Muslim religious leaders.

Posted: 8:27 AM The acting police chief in Kenya's capital says an explosive device set off in a Sunday school class killed one child and seriously wounded three.