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It's been six months since three young Americans were taken into custody in Iran, and the mother of one said even hiring an attorney ...

North Korea notified the U.S. that it has another American in custody for allegedly entering the country illegally, the State ...

Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.

North Korea announced today that it has custody of an American who entered the country illegally on Christmas Eve. Activists believe the man arrested is a missionary who went into the Communist country on Christmas Eve.

Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, DC area last month, officials from both countries said.

Women police officers investigating the murder of British student Meredith Kercher "had it in" for suspect Amanda Knox because of a sex toy, a court has heard, Sky News reported.

Three Americans died when a cargo plane crashed early Saturday at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said.

Millions of Americans got an early jump on their Thanksgiving travel Wednesday, with many opting to drive or take trains and buses instead of shelling out more money for flights amid a sour economy still hitting household budgets hard....

An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition.

As Democratic congressional leaders and White House officials work to shape health care bills that will go to the House and Senate floors, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and now wins clear majority support from the public.