While pledging nonviolence, protest leaders say they will gather mass rallies and blockades of government offices, starting on Friday and building over the following days.

Despite strong criticism, State Department says Obama administration is not ready to abandon dialogue efforts

As his visit overlapped with that of the U.S. defense secretary, the Iranian president said the U.S. occupation was doomed to fail.

Ibaraki Airport, which opens Thursday about 85 kilometers, or 52.7 miles north of Tokyo, aims to be a completely new type of Japanese hub.

U.S. secretary of state's trip to Afghanistan is his first since the start of President Barack Obama's surge of 30,000 additional forces