By Al Pessin Bratislava, Slovakia 23 October 2009 NATO defense ministers Friday endorsed the kind of broad counterinsurgency approach for Afghanistan ...
By Peter Heinlein Kampala 23 October 2009 Uganda's Pres. Yoweri Museveni (L) and AU Commission chair Jean Ping in Kampala before opening of AU Summit ...
By Scott Stearns Dakar 23 October 2009 Preliminary results from legislative elections in Niger indicate a big win for the ruling party in a vote boyco...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 23 October 2009 An Australian man accused of killing a Jewish youth in Hungary during the Second World War is in jail, awaiting ...
By Scott Bobb Harare 23 October 2009 Zimbabwe farm Almost 10 years ago, Zimbabwe embarked on a controversial land reform program that the government s...
By Ravi Khanna Washington 23 October 2009 Afghanistan is getting ready for a second-round presidential election between President Hamid Karzai and for...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 October 2009 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is urgently appealing for the protection of the civilian po...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 23 October 2009 UN envoy Walter Kalin (C) arrives at a camp for displaced in Vavuniya, north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, ...
By Selah Hennessy London 22 October 2009 The United Nations has released a report that says mobile phone use is growing faster in Africa than anywhere...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 October 2009 A new survey finds asylum applications in 44 industrialized countries rose by 10 percent in the first half of 2...