Rhode Island Social Blog

Austrians gathered in memory of the 2 million Jews murdered in Adolf Hitler's Auschwitz camp condemned plans to hold a ball of extreme rightists later in the day Friday, saying the event's timing transformed it into…

Police in Senegal fired tear gas in a square where hundreds have been protesting the constitutional court's decision to allow President Abdoulaye Wade to run for a third term in next month's election.

The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a judge violated due process when she issued unprecedented genocide charges against Rios Montt for conduct during Guatemala's bloody civil war.

Cuba convicted six people of cutting down African mahogany trees in the National Botanical Gardens and sentenced them to eight and 10 years in prison, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said Friday.

France and Afghanistan agree NATO should speed up by a year its timetable for handing all combat operations to Afghan forces in 2013, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, raising new questions about the unity of the…

The Czech government has signed a deal for Prague to host the headquarters of an ambitious satellite navigation system that is expected to rival the U.S. Global Positioning System.

The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a Guatemalan judge violated due process when she issued unprecedented genocide charges against Rios Montt for conduct during the country's bloody…

Muslim Brotherhood supporters and secular protesters hurled bottles and rocks at each other and got into fistfights in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday as their political differences boiled over at a rally by tens of…

Rescue workers feverishly dug through the wreckage of three downtown buildings Friday, hunting for survivors of a collapse that killed at least 12 people and left 17 more missing, police and municipal authorities said.

The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its next mission to Tehran in an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus – wresting information from Iranian officials about suspicions the…