Former Wehrmacht Lt. Josef Scheungraber was convicted Tuesday based on circumstantial evidence that put him at the scene as ranking officer

The decision by the generals who run Myanmar to extend Aung San Suu Kyi’s incarceration by 18 months has abruptly snuffed out the dim hope that the regime was becoming more sensitive to international pressure for democratic reform.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured an African refugee camp Tuesday crowded with victims of violence and malnutrition, pledging $17 million in American aid to help stem the tide of rampant sexual abuse that has staggered war-ravaged eastern Congo.

The head of a children’s charity in Chechnya and her husband were found shot to death in the trunk of a car Tuesday in the latest sign of lawlessness in the region.

U.S. refineries bought millions of dollars worth of oil stolen from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border, the U.S. Justice Department told The Associated Press.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A mudslide touched off by a deadly typhoon buried a remote mountain village, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted for Monday, and military rescue helicopters unable to land because of the slippery ground dropped food to desperate survivors.

He said in Monday’s call that the Pakistan Taliban remain united despite government reports that there is infighting.

Young boys have to be quick as they chase the mice through the fields and catch them. But local villagers have also come up with an innovative trap.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying schools and homes and hundreds of people under debris, a police official said Monday.

A typhoon slammed into Japan’s west coast on Monday, bringing heavy rain that triggered floods and landslides and left at least 12 people dead and another 10 reported missing.