In a remarkable comeback, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich seems set to become the president of Ukraine — five years after he was ousted in a populist pro-Western uprising dubbed the “Orange Revolution.”

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at the press club in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least one person, police said.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he would have taken the decision to remove Saddam Hussein even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, warned Thursday of an indication of an attack to Bali on New Year’s Eve.

Didier Defago ended Switzerland’s gold-medal drought in the Winter Olympics downhill skiing event as American star Bode Miller was edged into the bronze position at Whistler in Canada on Tuesday.

British Eurostar train drivers will go on strike for four days because of a dispute over meal allowances, the company said Wednesday.

Suspected Maoists blew up a railway track in eastern India, derailing a train packed with passengers less than a week ahead of regional elections opposed by the powerful rebels, authorities said.

A Greek owned vessel that was hijacked months ago was released Sunday, naval officials said.

More than 80 years after his family was ordered from the country, the grandson of one of the last Ottoman sultans was buried Saturday as hundreds of admirers looked on.

The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month came ashore east of the capital, Manila, on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and washing away shanty houses near the coast.

Pirates seized a North Korean-flagged cargo ship Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden, a European Union anti-piracy task force said.

A senior U.S. official tells CNN that the attack at a military base in eastern Afghanistan killed eight Americans believed to be CIA employees. Separately, four Canadian soldiers and a reporter were killed as well.

The Pakistani government has delayed the visas of hundreds of U.S. officials and contractors, a move that has frustrated the State Department and could affect U.S. programs on the ground.

Heavy snow in northern and central China has killed 21 people since Monday, the country’s Ministry of Civil Affairs said Friday, according to state-run media.

Lufthansa pilots may have reported back to work at midnight, but labor unrest continues to roll across Europe Tuesday as French air traffic controllers are expected to go on strike.

The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 Monday after members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked mostly Christian villages, officials said.