CHICAGO – The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be “hard days ahead,” President Barack Obama said Sunday as alliance leaders insisted the fighting coalition will remain effective despite France’s plans to yank combat troops out early.

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NEW YORK – A blind Chinese legal activist who escaped house arrest, endured a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle and a hurried daylong flight paused ever so briefly upon his arrival in New York City before taking up a familiar fight.

Taken from a hospital in his homeland and put on a [...]

JERUSALEM, Israel — A Jerusalem pastor believes his recent appearance on “The 700 Club” could have contributed to his church being forced out of its building in an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

Calvary Baptist Church sits in an east Jerusalem neighborhood less than half a mile from the Old [...]

BEIJING – A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the U.S. on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

Chen Guangcheng had been hurriedly taken from a hospital hours earlier and put on a plane for the United States after [...]

JERUSALEM, Israel — A Jerusalem pastor believes his recent appearance on “The 700 Club” could have contributed to his church being forced out of its building in an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

Calvary Baptist Church sits in an east Jerusalem neighborhood less than half a mile from the Old [...]

BEIJING – A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which took off late [...]

JERUSALEM, Israel — A Jerusalem pastor believes his recent appearance on “The 700 Club” could have contributed to his church being forced out of its building in an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

Calvary Baptist Church sits in an east Jerusalem neighborhood less than half a mile from the Old [...]

Friday is an historic day on Wall Street, the first day of trading shares of Facebook. It’s one of the biggest initial public offerings ever, bringing Facebook’s value to a whopping $104 billion.

In just eight years, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has gone from college nerd to a billionaire, with a new [...]