BAGHDAD- Iraqi leaders on Saturday urged a panel of seven judges to issue a final ruling on 500 candidates barred from running in next month's general elections, before campaigning starts next week....
ANKARA, Daphne Benoit - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed doubts Saturday that a deal was close on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, as the UN atomic chief said Tehran presented no new...
GAZA CITY- Hamas wants what it calls "Zionist war criminals" brought before the International Criminal Court over last year's Israeli assault on Gaza, an official of the Islamist group said on...
UNITED NATIONS- UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he could not determine whether Israel and the Palestinians have met UN demands to carry out credible, independent probes of alleged war crimes in...
GENEVA - UN aid agencies on Friday warned that programmes in Yemen were running short of funds amid concerns that aid efforts in Haiti could affect help for refugees in the volatile Middle East...
GENEVA - Any peace negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan must involve women, a United Nations committee on women's rights warned on Friday following talks in Geneva.
"Any agreement reached...
BAGHDAD, Sammy Ketz - Iraq's premier has convened parliament for Sunday to debate what his government branded an "illegal" decision to reinstate election candidates with alleged links to ousted...
LONDON- Lawyers for scores of Iraqis who claim they were abused by British soldiers called on Thursday for a public inquiry into how the country's forces have treated detainees during the US-led...
UNITED NATIONS- UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that former US president Bill Clinton agreed to take on an "expanded leadership role" in coordinating international aid to quake-hit Haiti.
The...
WASHINGTON - Bahrain's foreign minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa here on Wednesday acknowledged that Gulf military defenses were being upgraded but urged Iran not to see them as plans for...
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