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Serbian demonstrators set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade Thursday after a massive street demonstration that drew an estimated 150,000 people to protest Kosovo's weekend unilateral declaration of independence . The United States formally...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Monday refused to comment on the legality of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, instead calling on all parties to "exercise maximum restraint" in response to the declaration....

The United States and several key European Union powers formally recognized Kosovo as a sovereign state Monday, one day after the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally declared Kosovo's independence from Serbia. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

Turkey Thursday lifted a nationwide ban imposed last week on the popular video-sharing website YouTube . Last week, a Turkish court ordered Turk Telecom to block access to YouTube in reported response to video...

A Turkish court has reordered telecom providers in the country to block access to popular video-sharing website YouTube . Reports surfacing in the Turkish media on Sunday suggest that the ban, originally reimposed Thursday, was a response to...

A Greek appeals court Tuesday dismissed criminal charges against former Getty Museum curator Marion True for her alleged involvement in the looting of an ancient gold wreath from Greece. The Los Angeles museum acquired the wreath in...

The US State Department Tuesday cited the governments of 16 countries, including 11 predominantly Islamic states, for not making a "significant effort to combat human trafficking" in its annual report on modern-day slavery around the...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established and operated secret detention centers in Romania and Poland between 2002 and 2005, according to a report [PDF text; Appendix 1, JPG; Appendix 2, JPG; Appendix 3, PDF; press release;...

At least 39 "ghost detainees" have been held by the US CIA in secret detention facilities, according to a report jointly published Thursday by six leading human rights groups, including Amnesty...

British police arrested three men on Thursday in connection with the London transit bombings on July 7, 2005 that killed 56 people, including the bombers, and injured more than 700 others....