A Senate panel on Tuesday approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, setting up a spirited debate next month in the full Senate over the biggest changes in immigration policy in a generation. President Barack Obama, who has made enactment of an immigration bill one of his top priorities for this year, praised the Senate Judiciary Committee's action, saying the bill wa ...

A Ukrainian court in the city of Kharkiv has once again postponed the hearing of a new trial against jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year sentence for abuse of office charges, was scheduled to be tried anew in Kharkiv on separate charges of tax evasion and embezzlement dating back to the 1990s when she ran a large gas trading business. But Tymoshenko failed ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is preaching peace and reforms to the Myanmar as he urged to halt violence against Muslims in his country and move ahead with economic and political reforms. Obama said this during the visit of Thein Sein, the president of Myanmar’s visit to the White House, becoming the first head of Myanmar to visit the White House in 47 years, while discussing inside the Oval Office. Assuring ...

Guatemala's top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered on Monday that his trial restart, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first such guilty verdict for a Latin American leader. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman said the trial needs to go back to where it stood on April 19 to solve several appe ...

At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster area in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in Moore after the deadliest U.S. tornado since one ...

Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier on Tuesday in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said. A statement said a military vehicle was damaged by shots fired from Syria but that there were no injuries. It said that soldiers "returned precise fire". Gunfire incidents across the frontier from Syria have recurred in past months during an esc ...

Supporters of an influential Pakistani political party took to the streets of Karachi today, to protest against cricket-hero-turned-politician Imran Khan, who has accused their party of killing one of his senior staff a week after a general election. Furious members of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) have denied responsibility for the killing of Zara Shahid Hussain on Saturday outside her home in the ups ...

Former army chief and president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, before her 2007 assassination, was granted bail by a Pakistani court on Monday. Mr. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a May 11 ...

Hundreds of homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed as a massive tornado swept into central United States striking the city of Oklahoma. The half-mile wide twister has so far killed one person and more than a dozen injured according to report. Oklahoma Governor has declared 16 counties disaster areas. People residing in the city are lamenting the loss of their properties and have been rendered homeles ...

More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011. The attacks increased the number killed in sectarian clashes in the past week to more than 200. Tensions between Shi'ites, who now lead Iraq, and minority Sunni Muslims have ...