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Litigation over changes in voting rules, as opposed to the redrawing of voting districts, was uncommon before the Supreme Court blocked the federal preapproval requirement in Shelby County v. Holder; questionable changes were usually halted before they could take effect.

Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta was questioned by prosecutors on Monday as part of a corruption probe that has sparked calls for him to resign.

Baghdad: A series of bombings Sunday across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 81, police officials said. Police were searching the area after receiving information about two bomb threats.

Police were searching the area after receiving information about two bomb threats. According to police and an interior ministry source, at least 12 people were also wounded.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced in last week’s budget that United Kingdom spending on defense will equal the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation target of 2 percent of gross domestic product through the end of the decade.

The collapse of a military barracks in Russian Federation has killed 13 people, the Tass news agency reported Monday, citing the country’s Defense Ministry.

Gears of War developers, The Coalition, revealed at a panel event yesterday, that there will be a Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Xbox One bundle.

Red Cross spokesman Alfonso Contin said initial reports indicated a possible broken arm in the bull run, but the injury to a 22-year-old Spaniard from the northwestern city of Oviedo was later confirmed to be a shoulder dislocation.

Police have moved in to remove climate change demonstrators who got onto the north runway at Heathrow and locked themselves together in protest at airport expansion.

Local media, citing the provincial police chief, said 25 people were killed and another 10 were wounded, all of them civilians, including women and children.

Human rights group Amnesty global said on Saturday that more than 50 human rights lawyers and activists in China had been “detained, disappeared or summoned by police” over the past 48 hours, with a number of them having failed to make contact with relatives since...

The first round of talks brokered by Pakistan between representatives of the Afghan government and Tehreek-i-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA) concluded Wednesday in Murree, with both parties agreeing to meet again.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Twitter called the announcement “an important step to advancing toward agreement”.

Uber’s latest motion in the case includes declarations from 400 drivers explaining why they either don’t view themselves as employees or prefer to be classified as independent contractors.

The move marks a significant step in peace talks between the two sides that began in November 2012 but have been hampered in recent months by an uptick in violence.