North Korea has withdrawn its insistence on massive wage increases from South Korea at a jointly-run factory zone in the North. The move is widely see...
Under pressure from the United States to halt settlement expansion, Israel's leader is trying to calm the fears of one of his most important constitue...
Britain's foreign secretary say he has serious concerns about election fraud allegations swirling after last month's Afghan presidential vote and Davi...
Eight years after the terror strike on the United States, which prompted an invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, there are indications that th...
The United States, the four other permanent U.N. Security Council member countries and Germany are seeking an early meeting with Iran to explore that ...
The U.N. children's fund says infant morality around the world has dropped nearly 30 percent during the past two decades. But that improvement in chil...
Southern Senegal is experiencing some of the worst fighting in years, as violence between separatist rebels and army loyalists flares. The fighting ha...
The president of Somaliland has forcibly closed the breakaway republic's parliament after it began debating impeachment charges against him, just a fe...
Hundreds of former rebels have deserted the Congolese army in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, citing complaints about pay and their assigned...
Australia has played down fears that a police investigation into the deaths of five journalists in East Timor will spark a diplomatic dispute with Ind...
