Egypt remains polarized as voting in run-off ends

India has done well to resist US calls for greater involvement in Afghanistan, the Taliban said Sunday in a rare direct comment about one of the strongest opponents of the hard-line militant group that was ousted from power in 2001.

French President Francois Hollande’s Socialists Sunday won an absolute parliamentary majority

Two Palestinians were shot dead by an Israeli truck driver after they tried to steal his vehicle in the south Hebron Hills Sunday morning, Israeli police said.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of the main Philippine island of Luzon Sunday, US seismologists said, but there were no reports of casualties and no tsunami alert was issued.

Official projections in Greece’s election show the conservative New Democracy party as coming in first and could gather enough support to form a pro-bailout coalition to keep the country in the eurozone.

Political campaigning for a national assembly begins Monday, a milestone in Libya’s troubled path to democratic elections after four decades of dictatorship under late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Six world powers resume crisis talks with Iran Monday in hopes that a crippling oil embargo will finally force Tehran to scale back its nuclear drive.