US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urges respect for Turkey's "secular democratic principles", in light of a controversial court case to shut down the ruling party.

ANKARA, Turkey -- One soldier reportedly died and 13 were wounded in fighting between the Turkish army and members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a mountainous area of Sirnak province Wednesday (April 16th). According to Turkish media,

A siege is under way at the building housing the Perth stock exchange and commonwealth parliamentary offices, where a man is making threats from the building's roof, police say.Police believe the man may be armed.Exchange Plaza building manager John Bennett

Albany Police are looking into apossible hazmat situation down at the Port of Albany.Police are still investigating the situation and tell us that two railworkers were walking the tracks when they started feeling sick.Those men were taken to Albany Medical

The campus of Utica College is under a partial lockdown tonight after a threat against the college caused a more severe lockdown lasting several hours earlier today.Police arrested 36-year-old David Piper at around 5pm in Scotia, about three and a

Terrorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country's Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in military and economic aid, according to a government watchdog agency.The Government Accountability Office says in a report released

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri said that building Iraq as a "fortress of Islam" is the "most important duty" for Muslims, in an audio message released Thursday according to the SITE monitoring service.In a nearly 16 minute audio file posted

Police say an equipment case containing low-level radioactive material that was stolen from a car this week has been found in the doorway of a school in Madrid.A police spokeswoman says the case was unopened and there were no signs