Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court gave the green light Thursday for prosecutors to open an investigation targeting the Taliban, Afghan forces and U.S. military and CIA personnel for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The decision marked the first time the court’s prosecutor has been authorized to investigate U.S. forces. Washington has long…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday began talks over a potential ceasefire in northern Syria with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan by offering condolences over the recent killing of Turkish soldiers there. Putin, speaking alongside Erdogan at the Kremlin, said the situation in Idlib province, where their armies are facing off in a war…

Federal authorities announced an investigation of the Seattle-area nursing home at the centre of an outbreak of the new coronavirus as the U.S. death toll climbed to 11, including the first fatality outside Washington state. Officials in California’s Placer County, near Sacramento, said Wednesday an elderly person who tested positive after returning from a San…

To avoid a contested convention and block the path of Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, the field of contenders needed to get smaller and the vote of Democratic moderates had to coalesce behind one candidate. In less than a week, both of those requirements have now been fulfilled. Former vice-president Joe Biden’s…

A resurgent Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential bid that was teetering on the edge of disaster just days earlier. Biden took Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Minnesota and the battleground states of North Carolina and Virginia, a strong start as 14 states went to the polls across…

Joe Biden capped one of the most head-spinning political turnarounds in memory, racking up a string of victories in Super Tuesday primaries to complete a three-day resurrection of his status as Democratic presidential frontrunner. In the biggest day on the primary calendar, the former U.S. vice-president’s campaign gobbled up two-thirds of the states being contested…