WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon - A senior aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday for the first time that he expected a second round in disputed elections and pushed for the run-off to be held...
UNITED NATIONS, Gerard Aziakou - Israel and the Palestinians came under renewed international pressure on Wednesday to produce "credible" domestic probes of war crimes allegedly committed during the...
UNITED NATIONS - Top UN official Lynn Pascoe will begin a week-long visit to southern and east Africa this week to discuss conflict prevention and peacemaking, a UN spokesman said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON - Cutting greenhouse gases along the lines of a climate bill pending in Congress would modestly impact the US economy over the next few decades, the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office...
BUSAN, Mathew Scott - Shawkat Amin Korki spent more than two decades in exile from his Iraqi homeland, dreaming of the day he could make a film for his long-suffering compatriots.
But now that...
JERUSALEM - Israel is currently holding 335 Palestinians without trial in breach of international law, two Israeli human rights groups said on Wednesday.
Of the 335 Palestinians held in so-called...
MIAMI, Juan Castro Olivera- A judge on Tuesday resentenced one of five members of the biggest Cuban spy ring broken up in the United States to 22 years in jail, down from a previous life term that...
WASHINGTON, Olivier Knox - President Barack Obama's historic drive to remake US health care this year cleared a major hurdle Tuesday, as a key Senate committee approved sweeping legislation to enact...
OTTAWA - The Malian negotiator who helped secure the release of two kidnapped Canadian diplomats in April said Monday he was disappointed he had received neither payment nor thanks for his efforts....
TEGUCIGALPA, Maria Isabel Sanchez - President Manuel Zelaya said Monday that he did not believe the military-supported government of Roberto Micheletti would let him return to power, a key condition...
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