AMMAN (Reuters) - Violence flared across Syria, including bomb attacks that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo, while at the United Nations diplomats said a new effort was af...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican drug cartels paid $4.5 million in bribes to buy protection and political favors in a state run by the country's main opposition party, U.S. cou...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - London's U.N. ambassador warned Argentina on Friday that Britain would "robustly" defend the Falkland Islands if necessary, but added that his count...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan on Friday signed a security agreement which aims to defuse tensions over oil payments which officials had warned could spark a wa...

BEIJING/HAMBURG (Reuters) - China said on Friday it would send a senior official to Tehran to discuss Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, and India indicated it would also ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi warned on Friday of an imminent uprising in Libya, saying he was in regular contact with people in the country who were unhappy...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi warned on Friday of an "imminent uprising" in Libya, saying he was in regular contact with people in the country who were unhap...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Kosovo-Albanian man who killed two U.S. airmen and wounded two others in a gun attack at Frankfurt airport last March was sentenced to life in prison b...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians marched to the Defense Ministry Friday to press demands for the generals to hand over power, a day before a strike called by activists...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian officials suspected of committing or ordering crimes against humanity should face prosecution in the International Criminal Court (ICC), the United N...

GUWASIM, Libya (Reuters) - The revolutionary fighters-turned-jailors who run what passes for a justice system in Libya's Gharyan region say they are making the best of a bad b...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German court found a Kosovo-Albanian man guilty on Friday of killing two U.S. airmen in a gun attack at Frankfurt airport in March 2011 and wounding tw...

DAKAR/KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi's looted arsenals, the Tuareg-led rebels who assaulted the town of Aguelhoc in northern Mali las...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces recaptured on Friday the main suspect in a deadly Christmas Day bomb attack who escaped from police custody last month, a state secu...

MALE (Reuters) - The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, demanded on Friday fresh elections and said he would organise street protests in the Indian Ocean archi...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - For Brits grappling with the idea of Scottish independence, it may be worth looking across the Atlantic.In 1995, residents of Quebec voted on whether the pr...

NONGDAO, China (Reuters) - In an obscure part of southwest China, a refugee crisis from one of the world's longest running and least known conflicts in Myanmar is slowly unfol...

LAGOS (Reuters) - An increasingly violent insurgency by Islamist sect Boko Haram in Nigeria's economically stagnant north has begun pressuring the country's finances by forcin...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Jacob Zuma squashed more than two years of talk on Friday about the nationalization of South Africa's massive mining sector, saying state co...

BEIJING (Reuters) - After bowing to Western pressure over Libya a year ago, China blocked a move pressing Syria's leader to step down, exposing the difficulties Beijing faces ...

MALE (Reuters) - The ousted president of the Maldives was walking free on Friday despite an arrest warrant against him as diplomats including a U.N. envoy worked to forestall ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it will send a senior official to Iran for talks on the country's nuclear program, which has spurred tensions betwe...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court jailed a veteran dissident to seven years in jail Friday, his son said, in the latest blow to challengers of the Communist Party's rule bef...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Iran has not approached Malaysia for barter deals to keep its palm oil supplies flowing as Western financial sanctions hurt it ability to pay for impo...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The European Union has asked India to use its leverage to bring Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear program, European Council President Herman...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the prime minister in a contempt case on Friday and is set to charge him on Monday, a move likely to bring...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the prime minister on Friday and is set to indict him for contempt of court on Monday, a move likely to br...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Friday nationalizing mines was not the policy of his African National Congress (ANC)government, as he sough...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia would study any approach by Iran to trade by barter but has not received any such overtures from the country, trade minister Gita Wirjawan said o...

JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Indonesia would study any approach by Iran to trade by barter but has not received any such overtures from the country, trade minister Gita Wi...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces killed 11 militants and wounded 19 in the northwest on Friday, security officials said, in a crackdown in the Kurram tribal r...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police went on strike in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, risking a surge in crime just days before the beach city's famed carnival celebrations....

MANILA (Reuters) - The death toll from landslides triggered by an earthquake in the central Philippines has risen to 35 and scores of missing are feared dead as rains and afte...

FUKUSHIMA (Reuters) - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands...

Bombings, bombardments kill across SyriaAMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged H...