Greece’s current mix of street chaos, imposed hardship and growing despair raises one of modern history’s more ominous questions: How much pounding can one nation take before it explodes and takes others down with it? The economic austerity that the rest of the eurozone is forcing on recession-wracked Greece has even been compared to the [...]

Iran isn’t likely to start or provoke a conflict with its neighbours or the U.S., an intelligence official told a U.S. Senate armed services committee hearing Thursday. “Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz, at least temporarily, and may launch missiles against United States forces and our allies in the region if it is attacked,” [...]

Iran isn’t likely to start or provoke a conflict with its neighbours or the U.S., an intelligence official told a U.S. Senate armed services committee hearing Thursday. “Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz, at least temporarily, and may launch missiles against United States forces and our allies in the region if it is attacked,” [...]

The prisoners who died in the Honduran prison fire had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press. More than half of the 856 inmates of the Comayagua farm prison north of the Central American [...]

Armed militia groups in Libya that formed along tribal lines after the ouster of the Moammar Gadhafi regime have turned on one another and now rule most of the country, torturing their opponents with impunity, Amnesty International says. It’s not just the revenge attacks or tribe-on-tribe feuding, but the gross human rights abuses that go [...]