KHARTOUM, Guillaume Lavallee - Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir, the target of an international arrest warrant, has scrapped a visit to Turkey to join key political negotiations in Khartoum, official...

WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has vowed to remove corrupt officials from government, after high-profile international criticism that graft has undermined coalition war efforts. In an...

BEIRUT, Jocelyne Zablit - Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad Hariri was preparing to announce a new government on Saturday after granting concessions to his rivals in the Hezbollah-led opposition...

TEL AVIV - Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday used a speech honouring slain premier Yitzhak Rabin to urge Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to stay in power despite frustrations over the peace...

FORT HOOD, Daphne Benoit - US President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service here this week to honor victims of the shooting rampage on the military base in which 13 people died, the White...

SARAJEVO - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Friday praised Mahmoud Abbas for his "critical role" in Middle East peace efforts, after the Palestinian president announced he would not seek...

UNITED NATIONS - UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Friday that he would soon transmit to the Security Council a controversial report alleging that Israel and the Palestinians committed war crimes during the...

WASHINGTON, Olivier Knox- US President Barack Obama and top Democratic lawmakers struggled Friday to rally their troops behind legislation to remake US health care, ahead of what was expected to be a...

WASHINGTON, Christophe Schmidt - The Obama administration desperately needs a new approach to the Middle East as it slips further away than ever to securing peace after Secretary of State Hillary...