NATO diplomats say President Barack Obama is asking European members of the military alliance to contribute between 5,000 and 10,000 new troops to the international force in Afghanistan. Read More

Officials say Obama is asking NATO allies for 5,000 to 10,000 troops for Afghanistan. Read More

Italian police have broken up a major mafia clan, issuing 83 arrest warrants and seizing businesses, land, race horses and a London-based online betting company, officials said Tuesday. Read More

The U.N.'s environment chief said Tuesday he is optimistic that the climate change talks beginning in Copenhagen next week will reach a deal setting firm targets to cut carbon emissions. Read More

A decade after NATO airstrikes ended Serbia's bloody crackdown on its rebellious province, Kosovo told the U.N.'s highest court Tuesday its independence is irreversible and warned that any attempt to cancel it could set off a renewed conflict. Read More

Britain's High Court dealt a blow to the government Tuesday by ruling that terror suspects cannot be denied bail on the basis of secret evidence. Read More

Israel sternly warned the European Union on Tuesday against recognizing east Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, saying such a move would damage Europe's credibility as a Mideast mediator. Read More

Tehran warned on Tuesday that it will take strong action against five detained British sailors if it is proven they had "bad intentions" when their racing yacht entered Iran's Persian Gulf waters and was seized. Read More

Astronauts from Canada and Belgium and a Russian cosmonaut landed safely on the Kazakhstan steppes on Tuesday following a six-month stint on the International Space Station. Read More

Lawyers for a man accused of murdering Dutch civilians while part of a Waffen SS hit squad says his trial constitutes double jeopardy under a new EU charter and should be halted. Read More

Two former Guantanamo detainees who will be tried in Italy on terrorism charges have been linked to an Islamic center in Milan described by U.S. authorities as al-Qaida's main station house in Europe before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, officials said Tuesday. Read More

Sri Lanka gave permission Tuesday to nearly 127,000 Tamil refugees to leave squalid and overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, an official said. Read More

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Barack Obama discussed the new U.S. policy for Afghanistan during an hourlong videoconference call Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the presidential palace said. Read More

A teenage suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban lawmaker in his house in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Tuesday, showing the militant threat in the region remains months after a military push there was declared a success. Read More

The United Nations called Switzerland's ban on new minarets "clearly discriminatory" and deeply divisive, and the Swiss foreign minister acknowledged Tuesday the government was very concerned about how the vote would affect the country's image. Read More

The heir of a powerful clan was charged Tuesday in connection with the Philippines' worst political massacre _ an ambush in which 57 people, more than half journalists, were slaughtered. Read More

Amanda Knox's lawyer argued Tuesday there wasn't sufficient evidence to convict the U.S. exchange student in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate, saying Knox had been swept up by a "tsunami" of events that led to her arrest. Read More

Prosecutors accused John Demjanjuk of playing an active role in the Nazis' machinery of destruction, saying Tuesday that he was a willing follower of Hitler's racist ideology as they read the indictment against the retired Ohio autoworker. Read More

European leaders called on China to provide details on how it plans to curb its greenhouse gas emissions, saying Tuesday that Beijing's status as the world's largest polluter gives it a special responsibility to combat global warming. Read More

Turkey's government has approved a plan to open the country's first Kurdish-language department at a university as part of its efforts to reconcile with the Kurdish minority. Read More