UNITED NATIONS- Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement failed to narrow their differences Friday after two days of informal talks on the disputed Western Sahara in suburban New York, a...
WASHINGTON, Karin Zeitvogel - Stuttering, a speech problem that stigmatizes millions worldwide and has stumped scientists for centuries, could be caused by defects in three genes, a landmark study...
BEIJING- China Friday urged the United States to immediately withdraw a decision on a meeting between President Barack Obama and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Xinhua news agency...
We know now that both sides are planning demonstrations. The state is planning the usual rallies that they organize to mark the anniversary of the revolution, and the opposition is going to take...
LONDON- A former Guantanamo Bay inmate was shackled and warned he would "disappear" if he refused to cooperate with US interrogators, Britain revealed Wednesday after losing a lengthy court battle....
VIENNA - Iran became the world's biggest jailer of reporters in 2009, media watchdog IPI said in its annual report published Thursday.
The International Press Institute singled out Iran, as it...
WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday that he would isolate the Islamic republic with a "significant regime of sanctions" if it continued to set its stall on developing nuclear...
ABU DHABI, W.G. Dunlop- Under the watchful eyes of a white-coated doctor, two orderlies in scrubs sedate the patient on a paper-covered stainless steel table, then begin the procedure -- trimming her...
TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Monday agreed with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to help grow the economy of the Palestinian territories, officials said.
Hatoyama and Abbas,...
JERUSALEM - Israel's supreme court president, Dorit Beinish, on Monday came out in favour of a commission of inquiry into the Gaza war as called for by the United Nations in its Goldstone report....
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