NOUAKCHOTT, Hademine Ould Sadi - Polls closed Saturday in Mauritanian presidential elections nearly a year after the overthrow of the country's first elected president, with the coup leader...
LONDON - Britain's recently-resigned defence secretary added his voice Saturday to calls for more support for troops in Afghanistan, as mounting casualties there pile the pressure on Prime Minister...
MUMBAI - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in India Friday for a three-day visit aimed at deepening strategic ties with a country viewed as a global player on trade, arms control and...
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will hold a prime-time press conference on July 22 at 9:00 pm (0100 GMT July 23), the White House said Friday in a post to the micro-blogging website Twitter....
BRASILIA - The head of Brazil's senate, a key ally of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was under mounting pressure Friday to resign over multiplying corruption allegations.
Jose...
NEW YORK - French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with UN chief Ban Ki-moon for a working lunch Friday, ahead of a concert here this weekend honoring South Africa's Nelson Mandela at which the French...
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday slammed the killing of a local UN official in a refugee camp near the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
"The secretary general was shocked...
WASHINGTON - The link between repeated combat tours for US soldiers and a rising number of suicides in the ranks remains unclear, officials and researchers said on Thursday.
"It's not true that...
WASHINGTON - A leading US Muslim civil rights organization on Thursday slammed a draft state law that would bar teachers in public schools from wearing "religious dress" such as a headscarf.
"This...
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted Thursday that she maintains good relations with President Barack Obama, despite media speculation about tension between the one-time...
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