Addis Ababa--The Ebola epidemic in West Africa appears to be on the decline, with new weekly infections dropping below 100 for the first...
Addis Ababa--The Ebola epidemic in West Africa appears to be on the decline, with new weekly infections dropping below 100 for the first...
Amman--Jordan said Thursday that it would not release an Iraqi female jihadist until it receives proof that a Jordanian pilot held by the...
Ukraine's President Minsk--The contact group of representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE will meet in Minsk on Friday to hold peace talks...
BAKU-- Azerbaijan said on Thursday it had shot down an Armenian drone near the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, a report dismissed by Armenia as...
Matteo Renzi Rome--Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Thursday backed a Constitutional Court judge whose brother was slain by the mafia to be...
Islamabad--Rights organisations on Thursday called on Pakistan to halt the execution of the first civilian for a non-terror related offence since 2008, saying...
AMMAN-- Jordan said on Thursday it was still holding an Iraqi prisoner whose release has purportedly been demanded by Islamic State, and will...
Kabul,--At least eight people were killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated himself at funeral in eastern Afghanistan, provincial officials said. A...
Tripoli--A Libyan airline announced Thursday it was suspending flights after four of its aircrew, including a French captain, were killed when gunmen stormed...
MOSCOW-- Russia's envoy to the European security watchdog OSCE urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to stop supporting "party of war"...
Riga--European Union interior ministers met Thursday in Riga to finalise a counter-terrorism strategy targeting radical Islamists weeks after the Paris terror attacks that...
China's President Xi Jinping Beijing--China's ruling Communist party has ordered a survey of "unusual deaths" among officials, government websites showed Thursday, after reports...
Mikhail Gorbachev Moscow--Europe prepared Thursday to draft even tougher sanctions against Russia over Ukraine as ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned against the danger...
Salva and Riek Addis Ababa--South Sudan's president and rebel leader met face-to-face Thursday for the latest round of peace talks aimed at ending...
Berlin--Several thousand German manufacturing workers, mostly in the car industry, went on strike on Thursday, weeks after the start of tough pay talks...
Manchester, United Kingdom--Heavy snowfall forced Britain's Manchester Airport to suspend flights and shut down roads and train lines across northern and western England...
Brussels--EU foreign ministers will consider further "robust measures" against Russia over the fighting in Ukraine when they meet in Brussels Thursday, Ukrainian foreign...
HRW Kenneth Roth Beirut--Governments increasingly view human rights as "a luxury" they can ill afford, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, warning that abuses...
