| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States hopes to meet soon with international partners to consider how to halt Syria's violence and provide humanitarian aid to civilians under attack from their own government, US officials said on Wednesday.
By TOM WRIGHT Police and supporters of deposed Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed clashed violently Wednesday, leading to the deaths of at least two people who were protesting Mr.
By Ron Kampeas · February 8, 2012 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A bipartisan slate of US senators will present a resolution calling on the Obama administration to make a "nuclear-weapons capability" by Iran a red line.
The Independent's Asia Correspondent Andrew Buncombe is based in Delhi. His dominion ranges over India, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, occasionally parts of South East Asia and - or at least he is hoping - The Maldives.
(RTTNews) - Britain on Wednesday denied Argentina's claims that it was "militarizing the South Atlantic" by dispatching a Royal Navy destroyer to the disputed Falkland Islands, and insisted that the deployment of the naval vessel to the region was ...
By Marwa Awad and Tamim Elyan | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said on Wednesday it would not be swayed by threats to aid when probing NGOs over charges they received foreign cash without official approval, a case that has led Washington to warn that $1.3 ...
QUEEN Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee tour of Britain will criss-cross the kingdom over five months, Buckingham Palace announced as it released her itinerary.
February 08, 2012 Al-Shabab Claims Responsibility for Mogadishu Suicide Bombing VOA News Somali militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb explosion Wednesday outside a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.
How should the Obama Administration respond to the news that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has signed a deal with Hamas to form a unity government?
Negros earthquake: President Aquino visited Negros province where an earthquake struck Monday. Dozens of people are still missing, perhaps buried in landslides caused by the 6.9 magnitude quake.
TOKYO - Japan and the United States said Wednesday that they were renegotiating a 2006 agreement in order to expedite the removal of 8000 Marines from Okinawa.
Ban Ki-moon: "How many deaths will it take to halt this dangerous slide towards civil war?" UN chief Ban Ki-moon says the Arab League plans to revive its mission to Syria, and has sought help from the UN.
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The conclusion of Prince Harry's training as a fully qualified Apache pilot gives the army another specialist to fly an attack helicopter, and several headaches about how, where and when to deploy him.
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - A US drone attack targeting a militant compound killed four insurgents in a troubled Pakistani tribal region early Thursday, security officials said.
PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy put his reputation as a stalwart friend of Israel on the line Wednesday, warning that military action was no way to deal with nuclear-minded Iran at a dinner hosted by France's main Jewish group - and his ...
Wednesday, 08 February 2012 Reports: Another Tibetan Sets Himself on Fire VOA Tibetan Tibetans in exile report that another person set himself on fire Wednesday in China's southwestern Sichuan province.
