UNITED NATIONS - Amid applause and a smattering of hoots, the US ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday signed a landmark UN convention promoting and protecting the rights of the world's 650...

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will push for reforms in Zimbabwe during an upcoming trip to the region and encourage South Africa to press its neighbor, her top Africa aide said...

MAIDUGURI - Mohammed Yusuf, 39, the spiritual leader of an Islamist extremist sect captured and shot dead Thursday after his group launched an uprising, had been freed from jail early this year over...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday threw his support behind peace moves between the Philippines and Muslim rebels as he met with President Gloria Arroyo. Holding his first White House...

JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday predicted the people of the Gaza Strip will one day overthrow the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the enclave of 1.5 million...

WARSAW - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday compared the fate of the Tibetan people to Polish insurgents who rose up against Nazi Germany in the doomed 1944 Warsaw Uprising....

PARIS - The main Iranian opposition group in exile on Tuesday denounced an Iraqi operation against a camp housing thousands of its supporters, accusing Baghdad of acting on the orders of Tehran. A...

BAGHDAD, Dan De Luce - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday spoke of a new era in Iraq with American troops playing a less dominant role as Baghdad's security forces increasingly take the...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - US Middle East envoy George Mitchell reached Egypt on the latest leg of a whirlwind regional tour after stops in Israel and Syria earlier on Sunday, as Washington bids to...