GAZA CITY - Water in the Gaza Strip is so salty that it is unfit for human consumption, a Palestinian official in charge of water supplies inside the besieged coastal territory said on Saturday....

SALVADOR - Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian territory must stop immediately, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday as he seeks to position Brazil as a player in the Middle East....

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will wait until after Americans mark Thanksgiving on November 26 to announce whether or not he sends reinforcements to Afghanistan, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said...

UNITED NATIONS - UN officials Thursday urged cash-strapped governments not to cut back spending on health and education, warning it could drive millions of children and families into the poverty...

WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday it was too soon to set a timeline to transfer security duties from NATO-led troops to Afghan forces, as proposed by Britain. "I...

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - The Obama administration is hardening its tone against Israel, but analysts warned Wednesday the tough talk was mere bluster hiding the lack of a viable plan to...

NEW YORK - Talk about Washington and London's special relationship. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gushes over Britain's youthful-looking, 44-year-old foreign minister David Miliband, in...

WASHINGTON- US officials Tuesday appeared pessimistic about the chances of Iran responding to a UN-backed deal to ship its low-enriched uranium stock out of the country. "We hope that they will...

WASHINGTON - Liberal lawmakers from US President Barack Obama's Democratic Party on Tuesday voiced concern to him about sending more troops to Afghanistan, saying that US objectives remained...