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Afghan women's rights trailblazer survives gun attack

Trailblazing Afghan women's rights campaigner Fawzia Koofi, a member of the Afghan negotiating team that will hold talks with the Taliban, has been wounded in a gun attack near Kabul, officials said Saturday.a Gunmen opened fire on Koofi, 45, and her sister Friday when they were...

US Postal Service warns of mail-in ballot delays

The US Postal Service is warning states that it may not be able to meet deadlines for delivering mail-in ballots before Election Day, according to a report Friday.    The ballots would complicate an already tricky electoral process in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic....

Hezbollah "not concerned" with STL verdict

Hezbollah's leader said Friday the group was not concerned with the verdict of a U.N.-backed tribunal over the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri due on August 18. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said if any members of the four members of the group are indicted, Hezbollah would stand by their...

Prosecutor general charges 25 over Beirut port blast

 Lebanon's Prosecutor General Ghassan Oueidat has pressed charges against 25 people, including senior port and customs officials and security officers, over the massive Beirut port blast that killed 172 people, a judicial source told Reuters on Friday. It was not immediately clear what...