SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ― The United States has extradited a Muslim Bosnian woman accused of killing Bosnian Croat civilians during the 1990s Bosnian War, authorities said Tuesday.The prosecutor’s office said Rasema Handanovic, 38, has arrived in Bosnia and will appear in front of judges Wednesday.Handanovic ― who has a son and parents in the U.S. ― was extradited a week after the U.S. handed over her alleged comrade Edin Dzeko, 39, who is accused of taking part in the same killings.Bo

TEHRAN (AP) ― An American man accused by Iran of working for the CIA could face the death penalty, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Tuesday.In a closed court hearing, the prosecution applied for capital punishment, the report said, because the suspect, identified as Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, “admitted that he received training in the United States and planned to imply that Iran was involved in terrorist activities in foreign countries” after returning to the U.S.The prosecutor said Hekmati

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) ― Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery on January 4, her spokesman said Tuesday in a statement.Kirchner, who was sworn in for a second four-year term earlier this month, was found to have cancer “on the right lobe of the thyroid gland” during a routine medical examination on December 22, said spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro.“The illness has been contained,” Scoccimarro emphasized, adding the cancer had not metast

DES MOINES, Iowa (AFP) ― Mitt Romney fiercely mocked President Barack Obama Tuesday as Republicans blitzed Iowa, a week before the first votes of the 2012 White House race are cast in the U.S. state’s fabled caucuses.Longtime national front-runner Romney launched a three-day bus tour after his campaign’s barrage of negative advertising appeared to slow a surge by former House speaker Newt Gingrich.As time runs out before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, the former Massachusetts governor took direct aim

Afghan police have rescued a teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution, officials said Tuesday.Sahar Gul, 15, was found in the basement of her husband's house in northeastern Baghlan province late