UNITED NATIONS, Gerard Aziakou - A divided UN Security Council on Wednesday scrapped a meeting that western diplomats hoped would sharply criticize Myanmar for the extended detention of democracy...

TEHRAN, Jay Deshmukh - Iranian MPs warned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday about the make-up of his new cabinet, the latest sign of the acute political turmoil gripping the nation since his...

GROZNY, Vitor Vilaskas - A Russian NGO chief and her husband were found shot dead in Chechnya Tuesday, their bodies stuffed into a car boot, in the latest killing to shake activists in the...

YANGON, Hla Hla Htay - Worldwide outrage greeted Wednesday Myanmar's decision to extend the house arrest of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, with US President Barack Obama leading calls for her...

JERUSALEM - The United States, Israel and Turkey will launch joint military exercises in the Mediterranean next week, the Israeli army said Tuesday. The navies and air forces of the three...

GROZNY- Armed men abducted the leader of a human rights group and her husband in the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya Monday, leading members of two other groups said. "Today, towards two...

PALMA DE MAJORCA - Police in Spain were looking Monday for a woman suspect following a wave of ETA bombings in Majorca where officials downplayed the impact of the attacks on the battered tourism...

GUADALAJARA, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama Monday accused critics of his response to the coup in Honduras of "hypocrisy" and agreed at a summit with Canada and Mexico to gird for a...

LONDON - Senior British ministers said Sunday they could not rule out that vital anti-terror information had been obtained through the torture of suspects abroad. Foreign Secretary David Miliband...