.MOSCOW (AP) - The Kremlin has clamped down on freedoms in the run-up to Russia's presidential election, an international rights group said Tuesday. Amnesty International released a report ahead of Sunday's...

.MIAMI (AP) - A relatively minor glitch in Florida's electrical grid somehow triggered a chain reaction Tuesday that caused a nuclear plant to shut down and briefly cut power in patches from Daytona Beach...

.KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was handed over to Arizona authorities Tuesday to face sex charges stemming from the arranged marriages of two teenage girls to older relatives. He...

.AMADIYA, Iraq (AP) - Turkey says it is not targeting civilians as it chases after separatist rebels in northern Iraq, but people in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region say they have lived in fear since...

.LONDON (AP) - British lawmakers agreed Thursday to allow a house arrest program for suspected terrorists to continue for another year, but warned the system could begin to resemble Guantánamo Bay...

.EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - An Air Force fighter pilot died Wednesday after his jet and another likely collided during a training exercise and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The other pilot was...

.UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Eritrean officials refused to grant U.N. peacekeepers permission to cross from Eritrea into Ethiopia, prompting them to regroup in the capital instead, U.N. officials said Tuesday. The...

>CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's 550 combat troops based in southern Iraq have helped to make the area more secure and should now be withdrawn, the defense chief said Wednesday. Air Chief Marshal...