Min Aung Hlaing Yangon--Myanmar's army chief said peace in the war-ravaged nation is in the hands of ethnic rebels, in an interview broadcast...
Min Aung Hlaing Yangon--Myanmar's army chief said peace in the war-ravaged nation is in the hands of ethnic rebels, in an interview broadcast...
Beirut--Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in Syria's Kobane have captured a strategic hilltop, giving them line of fire over...
Kinshasa--Democratic Republic of Congo police opened fire Monday on student demonstrators opposed to President Joseph Kabila in the capital Kinshasa, wounding at least...
Khalid Bahah Sanaa--Huthi militiamen opened fire on a convoy carrying Yemen's Prime Minister Khalid Bahah in the capital Sanaa on Monday but he...
Jalalabad--Hundreds of people in eastern Afghanistan demonstrated Monday against the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, burning a French flag and calling for the government...
Taipei--A shootout outside an airport in central Taiwan apparently sparked by a man who punched a policeman killed one person and left two...
Brussels---The EU will appeal a December court decision ordering the removal of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from its terror blacklist, a spokeswoman...
Beirut---Lebanese laws and courts governing marriage and child custody "discriminate against women" from all religious groups, often trapping them in abusive unions, a...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Tehran---Iran's foreign minister said Monday that he could hold fresh talks with US Secretary of State John...
Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copenhagen---Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt begins a visit to Sierra Leone on Monday, making her the first Western...
Washington---European security officials are scrambling to meet the changing and more complex threat from jihadists -- both from sleeper cells and fighters returning...
Niamey---Police in Niger on Sunday fired tear gas and arrested dozens at a banned opposition protest, a day after deadly riots over a...
Paris---French President Francois Hollande's ratings, scraping historic lows just weeks ago, have soared in the aftermath of deadly Islamist attacks in Paris, data...
Seoul---The trial opened Monday of Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-Ah, charged with aviation safety violations following a now notorious "nut rage" incident that...
Shanghai---The Chinese flagship firm of French telecom equipment group Alcatel-Lucent confirmed Monday a human resources manager is missing, after media reports said he...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ankara---Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will on Monday chair a cabinet meeting for the first time as head...
Bamako---The Malian government and the United Nations on Sunday declared the country free of Ebola after 42 days without any new cases of...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon United Nations, United States---UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced alarm Sunday over fierce fighting around the Donetsk airport in eastern...
