WASHINGTON - The United States "deeply" regrets that some 140 people have been killed in ethnic violence in China's restive Xinjiang region, a State Department spokesman said Monday. "We deeply...

PARIS - A French woman was detained in Iran last week on spying charges, France's foreign ministry said Monday, demanding her release. "France firmly condemns the July 1 arrest and detention by...

MOSCOW- Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity "must be respected," US President Barack Obama stated Monday during a joint Kremlin press conference with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev....

BERLIN - Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, hired detectives to spy on its employees including a member of its supervisory board, managers and a shareholder, German magazine Der Spiegel...

WASHINGTON- A US military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "very destabilizing," top US military commander Admiral Mike Mullen said Sunday, warning that any attack could have serious...

SOFIA, Diana Simeonova - Sofia's tough-guy mayor Boyko Borisov -- a former bodyguard with a black belt in karate -- and his centre-right GERB party won the most votes in the Bulgarian general...

GENEVA - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he was "deeply concerned" that North Korea had cut off channels of communication and dialogue during its recent escalation in missile launches....

TEGUCIGALPA, Sophie Nicholson - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return to Honduras on Sunday accompanied by a handful of Latin American leaders, stirring up fears of a violent showdown in...

MOSCOW, Stuart Williams - Russia was Saturday preparing to welcome Barack Obama for the first time as US president, heartened by his description of the country as an equal but also stunned by...