Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state on a regional visit starting this week which will also take in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan, the foreign...
The Israeli navy arrested four Palestinian fishermen and seized their boat on Tuesday, a Gaza official says, in one of the first instances of friction between the sides since the Gaza war ended last...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Christine Lagarde urged Germany to increase investments to help spur the euro zone's flagging economic recovery, adding that the bloc as a whole needed to make...
Abdullah Abdullah, one of two contenders for Afghanistan's presidency, said Monday that he will not accept the expected outcome of the election's second round and that talks with his opponent to form...
Australia has been accused of a "chain of human rights violations" in its treatment of asylum seekers by the incoming United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein...
Parents and students in Canada's British Columbia are scrambling for learning and daycare options again as half a million students face the 2nd week of the new school year without classes.
Scores of Palestinians staged a protest in East Beit-ul-Muqaddas on Sunday after hearing that a youth from their neighborhood had died of wounds suffered in a clash with Israeli police last week,...
Six months ago, the story began as a puzzling news bulletin. A Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 239 people on board had vanished from radar screens as it was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Russia has warned that it could block international flights through its airspace if the EU goes ahead with new sanctions over the Ukraine conflict.
The EU is expected to announce shortly whether...
"Potential loss of control of the dam or a catastrophic failure of the dam -- and the flooding that might result -- would have threatened US personnel and facilities in and around Baghdad, as well as...
A ceasefire between the Ukrainian government and separatist leaders appeared to be holding Saturday, a rare positive sign in a conflict that has ratcheted up tensions between Russia and the West, CNN...
North Korea on Saturday continued its string of rocket and missile firings, launching three short-range projectiles into the waters off its east coast ahead of a major holiday celebrated by both...