The international medical organization Doctors Without Borders is warning that conditions at the main camp for Somali refugees in Kenya have gotten so bad that many refugees are contemplating returning to Somalia, even as renewed fighting there caus...
Official results show European Union budget chief Dalia Grybauskaite has won the presidential elections in her native Lithuania, with nearly 70 percent of the vote. But she has little time to celebrate as the Baltic nation faces a major economic cri...
Facing record auto industry losses and with thousands of jobs on the line, Britain has launched a new car incentive program aimed at spurring sales. Under the deal, qualified motorists will get a $3,000 discount on the purchase of a new vehicle. Toy...
The annual World Health Assembly has opened with delegates from 193 member countries discussing how to protect people from diseases such as the swine flu virus that is spreading around the world. World Health Organization Director General Margaret C...
Chad says it has completed a ground and air assault against rebels based in neighboring Sudan, but the Khartoum government calls the bombing raids an act of war. Chad's ground assault into Sudan captured 100 rebel prisoners and its aerial bombardmen...
The quarter-century civil war in Sri Lanka has come to a dramatic end. The army has apparently wiped out the entire leadership of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, including the leader who founded the rebel group. Ror the first time in 26 years,...
Israel is pressing ahead with plans to build more settlement housing in the West Bank. An Israeli official announced the scheme as a meeting was getting under way in Washington between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed on the need to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and to deal with the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program. The two leaders had their first meeting Monday...
The Lacandon are direct descendants of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas. Until the mid-20th century, they had little contact with the outside world. As a result, the indigenous group was almost extinct. Today...
U.S. President Barack Obama's decisions to continue using military commissions to try terrorism detainees and to set a deadline for the closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has earned praise and criticism on the Sunday television...
In India, the ruling Congress Party got down to the job of choosing partners and forming a new government, a day after it beat forecasts to win a better-than-expected victory in general elections. The Congress Party-led alliance has won 261 seats in...
The European Union's budget commissioner has won Lithuania's presidential election getting roughly 69 percent of the vote according to official results. The results are just about what early exit polls had indicated. Voter turnout was about 51 perce...
Israel's new prime minister begins a visit to Washington Sunday for talks with U.S. officials on Israeli-Arab peace prospects and Iran's nuclear program. Benjamin Netanyahu The thorny issue of Palestinian statehood will top the agenda when hawkish I...
U.S. President Barack Obama has delivered the commencement address to graduates of one of America's leading Roman Catholic universities, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. His visit and acceptance of an honorary degree angered religious protes...
Sri Lanka is preparing for a major celebration following the battlefield defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending a quarter-century civil war. Joyous outbursts that are mixed with some lingering anxiety, especially among the minority T...
