WASHINGTON- The United States on Sunday welcomed talks between Chad and Sudan, and expressed hope for normalized relations between the two African neighbors after months of fierce cross-border...

LIMA - More than half of all Peruvians are against legalizing abortion in cases of rape or fetal deformity, according to a national poll released Sunday on a contentious bill pending in Congress....

PARIS, Claire Rosemberg - Bram Stoker's own blood runs through the veins of a sequel to his 1897 novel "Dracula", releasing worldwide this month penned by a great-grandnephew hoping to revive the...

SAN SEBASTIAN- Thousands of people protested Saturday in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian against the arrests of five Basque pro-independence militants. The demonstrators demanded the...

ROME- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Saturday the entire Muslim world was concerned about Israel's settlement construction in Palestinian territories, ANSA news agency reported. Mubarak,...

GAZA CITY - US actress and outspoken human rights activist Mia Farrow said on Thursday that children living in blockaded, impoverished and war-wracked Gaza Strip deserve a better life. "The...

WASHINGTON - The US military on Friday cancelled plans to send a 3,500-strong Army brigade to Iraq because of improving security conditions there, possibly freeing up troops for the war in...

LONDON- The leaders of Britain and France wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday acknowledging that a UN report on the Gaza war was "an emotive issue" and urging a moderate response from...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government on Thursday condemned a spate of attacks in Pakistan that left 40 people dead. "Canada strongly condemns these attacks," Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon...