International News

Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.

The World Health Organization says it is investigating samples of mutated swine flu found in two Norwegians who died of the virus and one person who suffered severe illness.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback.

A United Nations committee has approved a resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of disputed presidential elections.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January.

Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.

Italian prosecutors have begun their closing arguments in the trial of an American student accused of killing her British roommate.

CIA director Leon Panetta is in Pakistan meeting with the country's prime minister today, as intelligence officials describe another suspected U.S. missile strike against insurgent targets in the country's northwest.

Sixteen people are dead after a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a busy city square in western Afghanistan.

A South Korean official says a gunman has opened fire on the island of Saipan, killing four people before fatally shooting himself.