International

An army officer and a religious leader have been arrested by armed men in Bamako as part of an investigation into an attempted counter coup, family members said on Saturday.

U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney kicked off his official visit to Israel Sunday morning in a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The economy is in the tank and hopes for quick improvement are dim. Most people don’t like the direction the country is headed and many blame President Obama. And his GOP rival scores better on the top issues. So why isn’t Obama doing worse in the polls?

The third Sino-Africa forum on poverty reduction and development started in Tanzania on Saturday with a focus on promoting agricultural modernization as a way of lifting millions of people out of poverty.