The U.N.'s top envoy to Iraq says provincial elections scheduled for early next year are on track, but warned that violence could spike and spoilers c...
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced that it is increasing food and other assistance for over 400,000 people displaced by violence i...
The feuding leaders of Somalia's transitional government are deadlocked in a dispute over cabinet appointments as Islamist rebel forces advance to wit...
A new report says the German economy shrank half a percent in July, August and September, which was the second straight quarter of decline. Falling ex...
The Bush administration Thursday dismissed as not credible a Russian offer to forego deployment of missiles near Poland, if the United States drops it...
The collapse of the Soviet Union left a complex mixture of ethnic groups in republics of the former empire. Their common language, Russian, expanded a...
Following Democrat Barack Obama's victory in last week's presidential election, Republicans have begun a period of self-reflection about what went wro...
The U.N. refugee agency says about one third of the Christian families that fled the Iraqi city of Mosul in early October have returned to their homes...
Stock markets in Asia have followed the downward trend set by Wall Street as fears mount over the state of the ailing global economy. The Australian g...
The United States says the reported test of a new Iranian ballistic missile underscores that country's threat to the Middle East and Europe, including...
