WASHINGTON (JTA) — A number of Senate Republicans blocked Israel's request of an additional $225 million for the Iron Dome anti-missile system during the current Gaza Strip conflict. Republicans had initially objected to the inclusion of the request by Sen ...

Investors voted with their feet in response to a surprise offer for T-Mobile US from Xavier Niel, the boss of low-cost French telecommunications company Iliad, which trades as Free. Iliad's shares slumped after it bid $15 billion dollars (11.2 billion euros) in cash ...

Ugandan activists at the constitutional court in Kampala on 30 July, 2014. They are The Ugandan activists seeking to overturn tough anti-gay laws. Photograph: Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images. In a small house, tucked a few narrow alleys away from a busy ...

image KAOHSIUNG: A series of powerful gas blasts killed at least 24 people and injured up to 271 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping up roads, officials said Friday. The explosions sparked a massive inferno that tore ...

August 1, 2014 4:28 AM EDT — A Taiwanese government agency says that an explosion caused by a gas leak in the country's second city killed more than 20 people, injured more than 200 and sent flames shooting 15 stories into the air. (Reuters) ...

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued by a man in the United States over the phrase 'CR7,' which is used by football fans around the world as shorthand for the player, according to the Daily Mail. Christopher Renzi of Rhode Island filed the ...

New Delhi: US Secretary of State John Kerry told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday that India's refusal to sign a global trade deal had sent the wrong signal, and urged New Delhi to work to resolve the row as soon as possible. A World Trade ...

MALIN, India - Heavy rains hampered efforts Friday by hundreds of rescue workers digging through heavy mud and debris, as the death toll from a landslide that engulfed an entire village in western India rose to 51. Rescuers are still looking for about 100 ...

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has surpassed 700, according to the World Health Organization. It's the deadliest outbreak ever recorded. U.S. health officials are warning Americans not to travel to the three countries hit by the outbreak: ...

Gazans and Israelis had their first quiet morning of calm under seething disquiet as a 72-hour temporary ceasefire came into effect early today after Israel accepted a joint proposal from the US and the UN which took into consideration a key demand by the ...

Pop brat Justin Bieber shared an intimate photo of himself with Victoria's Secret model Shanina Shaik on Thursday evening - after spending a day with her on his yacht. The 20-year-old star , who was seen arguing with Orlando outside a restaurant in Ibiza on ...

Kaohsiung, Aug. 1 (CNA) About 12,000 people displaced by a series of gas explosions in Kaohsiung Thursday night are being sheltered at 10 emergency centers at local schools, the city government said Friday. At the largest shelter -- Kuang-Hua Primary ...

A three-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip went into effect Friday following heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas that killed 17 Palestinians and five Israeli soldiers. LIVE BLOG | Follow the story here; ANALYSIS | Israeli attitudes on Gaza seem firmly behind ...

CYCLIST Moses Sesay who competes for Sierra Leone was tested twice for the deadly disease while in the UK and treated by doctors in bio-hazard suits. Share; Share; Tweet; +1; Email. Focus Images. Moses Sesay. A COMMONWEALTH athlete was tested ...

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has been sued over “CR7,” which he uses as shorthand for his name. Christopher Renzi of the United States filed the lawsuit in United States District Court in Providence, R.I., against Ronaldo and a Danish company, ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel and Hamas have agreed to an unconditional 72-hour humanitarian truce to begin Friday morning, diplomats from the United States and the United Nations announced Thursday, potentially paving the way for an end to the ...

Situation still worrisome in Malin village near Pune which is reeling under the impact of a dreadful landslide. In what seems to be a literal swallow up of the village by the natural calamity, 150 people are feared trapped under the debris. NDRF personnel are ...

Government health workers are seen during the administration of blood tests for the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone, June 25, 2014. Friday, Aug 01, 2014. Reuters. FREETOWN - Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency and called in troops to ...

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner denied the country defaulted on its debt in her first public comments since Standard & Poor's said the nation had done just that for the second time in 13 years. Fernandez said in a televised speech ...

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's bond and stock markets and peso currency dropped on Thursday after Latin America's No. 3 economy defaulted for the second time in 12 years following the collapse of last-ditch talks with holdout creditors. The default came after ...