President Vladimir Putin Moscow---Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend ceremonies in Poland for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi...
President Vladimir Putin Moscow---Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend ceremonies in Poland for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi...
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano Strasbourg, France-Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is to step down "within hours," well before the 2020 expiry of his term,...
Paris---A grim-faced President Francois Hollande on Tuesday led a ceremony honouring the three police officers killed in last week's Islamist attacks. Hollande laid...
Pope Francis Colombo---Pope Francis on Tuesday cancelled a planned meeting with Sri Lankan bishops, with one security official saying he was "exhausted" after...
Algiers---Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in Algeria Tuesday for talks with the fellow OPEC member on how to tackle tumbling oil prices, officials...
Islamabad---The US and Pakistan vowed Tuesday to intensify a crackdown on militants hiding in lawless border areas, as top diplomat John Kerry urged...
Athens---Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' debut TV advert for this month's snap elections has been lampooned in Greece, with critics savaging his administration's tax...
Moscow---Russia has demanded an official explanation from France over its failure to deliver a Mistral-class warship due to concerns about Moscow's role in...
Sofia---A Frenchman arrested in Bulgaria on January 1 trying to cross into Turkey was in contact with one of the two brothers who...
Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapakse Colombo---Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapakse on Tuesday denied government allegations that he attempted a coup to...
Islamabad---The US is set to step up its security and intelligence efforts as the Pakistani government moves against militants in its restive northwest,...
US Secretary of State John Kerry Islamabad--US Secretary of State John Kerry appealed Tuesday to arch-rivals India and Pakistan to resume stalled peace...
Yerevan---A Russian soldier accused of slaughtering six members of the same family in the tiny Caucasus nation of Armenia has been detained, investigators...
Ljubljana---Slovenian police detained a 24-year-old Italian suspected of having sent envelopes containing poison to a Czech minister in November, private POP TV reported...
Andrew Howard Brannan Washington---A former Vietnam war veteran is set to be executed Tuesday in the southern US state Georgia for killing a...
Jerusalem---The bodies of four French Jews killed in an Islamist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris were to arrive in Israel early...
Paris---A woman who survived the attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris recalled on Monday the horror of the four-hour ordeal in which...
Khartoum---The Sudanese military has been battling insurgents for control of parts of the conflict-stricken South Kordofan region, both sides said, giving conflicting reports...