Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday he will go on TV and appear in courtrooms to prove that corruption and tax fraud charges in two trials against him are false. The proceedings in Milan are to resume after a top Italian court overturned a...

housands of Italians marched on Saturday in an anti-mafia protest and called on all citizens to take a public stand against Italy’s powerful crime syndicates.Crying openly and shouting “Basta!” (Enough!), politicians and anti-mafia...

The United States gave Afghan police 70,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 51,000 pistols and 3,500 vehicles last year, part of $2.5 billion in spending to upgrade the force. Despite that influx of firepower, Taliban militants targeted police in dozens of...