WASHINGTON- Mexico said on Sunday it will not attend a global food industry event hosted by China later this month because of the Asian giant's "unacceptable" policies in the wake of the swine flu...

JERUSALEM, Yana Dlugy- Israel prepared a red carpet welcome for Pope Benedict XVI on Monday as the pontiff headed to the Jewish state as a "pilgrim" aiming to build inter-faith bridges and plead for...

KABUL, Bronwen Roberts - A US and Afghan investigation confirmed Saturday that "a number of civilians" were killed in clashes with Taliban this week although President Hamid Karzai charged that up to...

CARACAS- President Hugo Chavez on Saturday warned Venezuela could leave the US-based Organization of American States, and that other Latin nations could ditch it and form a new regional body. On...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government was under pressure Sunday as new polls showed his party had lost yet more ground amid a scandal over claims made by lawmakers on expenses....

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - US President Barack Obama, citing continuing concern about Syria's support for militants, has renewed for one year economic sanctions on Damascus imposed by his...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "hopeful" of improving relations between the United States and Russia, as he held Oval Office talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...

ABIDJAN- A French journalist jailed in Ivory Coast in 2008 for "plotting against the authority of the state" was released on bail on Wednesday. A visibly relieved Jean-Paul Ney left Abidjan's main...

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday met the wife of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing in March 2007 on an Iranian island in the Gulf. Clinton "wanted to...