DHAKA, Bangladesh — A factory building that collapsed last month outside Dhaka, killing over 1,000 workers in the deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry, was constructed with ... Read more
BERLIN — Two of Europe’s most powerful countries, Britain and Germany, have thrown their weight behind a push for the European Union to designate the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as a terrorist ... Read more
BEIJING — Geologists have discovered a large gold mine in the western part of the region of Xinjiang, a vast area that Chinese leaders are exploiting for its natural resources, according to a report by ... Read more
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men were shot and wounded by police. ... Read more
ROME — An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia to stand trial on manslaughter and other charges related to the deadly capsizing of the vessel off the coast of ... Read more
VIENNA — Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb if it decides to make one, a U.N. ... Read more
LONDON — Britain’s top security officials held an emergency meeting on Wednesday evening, after police officers shot two men who were suspected of killing what some reports identified as British ... Read more
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday announced the release of seven Egyptian security officers who had been kidnapped nearly a week ago in the lawless Sinai Desert, ending days of mounting anxiety ... Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian government and a United States-based mining company will appoint an independent team to investigate the collapse of a training tunnel last week near the company’s ... Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian government and the United States-based mining company Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. will appoint an independent team to investigate the collapse of a training ... Read more