GENEVA - The World Health Organisation on Friday called on Israel to immediately lift an aid and fuel blockade of the Gaza Strip saying it was causing a "serious shortage of medicines and medical...

WASHINGTON- The chances of a deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban are remote as long as the insurgents enjoy momentum on the battlefield, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on...

CAPE TOWN, Fran Blandy - Vikas Swarup may have penned a small novel that swept the globe, winning accolades and turning out an Oscar darling film, but the Indian diplomat to South Africa sees his...

PADUCAH - A Kentucky jury Thursday handed life imprisonment to a former US soldier for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, sparing him from the death sentence....

WASHINGTON - US congressional leaders on Thursday said they were still waiting for a plan to close the "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba despite President Barack Obama's reaffirmation of...

PADUCAH, Donna Groves - A Kentucky jury has not reached agreement on whether a former US soldier should be executed for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, and...

WASHINGTON- US senators on Wednesday reintroduced legislation aimed at bringing together immigrant families who are often torn apart for years due to a severe backlog. The bill stalled last year...

GENEVA - UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced Tuesday he would visit Sri Lanka as relief agencies and governments called for urgent humanitarian aid after Colombo said it had defeated the Tamil Tiger...

SAN JOSE - Nine Nobel Peace Prize winners are calling for fellow laureate and Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed, calling her trial for violating her house arrest a "mockery,"...