NewsmaxWorld RSS FeedFri, 24 May 2013 16:34:03 EDTToronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Fri, 24 May 2013 12:43:52 EDTBritish fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.Fri, 24 May 2013 10:47:52 EDTGermany’s foreign intelligence agency has fundamentally changed its view of the ongoing civil war in Syria, now saying the forces of President Bashar al-Assad have the upper hand, the German website Spiegel Online reports.Fri, 24 May 2013 07:28:31 EDTSecretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the larger goal was restarting direct negotiations.Fri, 24 May 2013 07:04:12 EDTBritain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence officers.Fri, 24 May 2013 04:56:15 EDTSinn Fein President Gerry Adams Thursday denounced the British government for charging an Irish Republican Army (IRA) activist with murdering four soldiers in a 1982 bombing. Fri, 24 May 2013 04:33:27 EDTChina hopes that this week's visit by a senior North Korean envoy can ease tension in the region and help spur efforts to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.Fri, 24 May 2013 03:33:05 EDTStockholm police are asking for reinforcements to help end riots that have spread through the Swedish capital’s most ethnically mixed areas.Fri, 24 May 2013 02:56:41 EDTThe president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, on the road to Roman Catholic sainthood.Fri, 24 May 2013 02:38:34 EDTPolice investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy.Thu, 23 May 2013 15:12:24 EDTAn Israeli committee has handed the government its proposal for ending a system granting Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service.Thu, 23 May 2013 13:19:03 EDTIt s been more than a year since blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng made his daring escape from house arrest in China to safety in the American Embassy in Beijing, but Chen is no closer in his quest to improve the human rights situation in China than he was....Thu, 23 May 2013 09:07:40 EDTNorth Korea is willing to take China's advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as saying, following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula after the North's latest nuclear test.Thu, 23 May 2013 06:13:49 EDT Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said Thursday. Thu, 23 May 2013 05:17:59 EDTUnrest in Stockholm’s suburbs continued for a fourth night as rioters showed their anger over a police shooting a week ago by setting fire to cars and buildings and pelting emergency workers with stones.Thu, 23 May 2013 04:54:03 EDTThe United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from Secretary of State John Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.Thu, 23 May 2013 03:06:12 EDTFrance is ready to support a British initiative to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's (EU's) list of terrorist organizations, an official said on Thursday, confirming comments by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.Thu, 23 May 2013 02:49:45 EDTWashington threatened Wednesday to increase support for Syria's rebels if President Bashar al-Assad refuses to discuss a political end to a civil war that is spreading across borders.Thu, 23 May 2013 02:35:40 EDTThe U.N. atomic agency Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor.Wed, 22 May 2013 12:18:31 EDTRampaging protesters pelted police and firefighters with stones and torched 30 cars Tuesday in Stockholm, as the Swedish capital experienced a third consecutive night of apparently race-related riots.