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Neighbor turning on Neighbor, villages razed to the ground, hundreds of victims shot or hacked to death with machetes. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, visited violence-racked Central African Republic on Thursday, where she will feel the...

SYRIA'S PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD (L) RUSSIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MIKHAIL BOGDANOV (R) A Russian diplomat signaled on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should refrain from statements suggesting he might seek re-election because it could fuel tension before planned peace...

The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the Egyptian authorities on Thursday for charging former President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists with terrorism and conspiring with foreign groups, saying the allegations were "risible". The Brotherhood also reiterated calls for all nations to put...

Oil workers have sought protection at a U.N. base in South Sudan's Bentiu oil producing area, the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said, after a minister said crude output was unaffected by five days of conflict in the...

The United Nations received reports from local sources in South Sudan on Tuesday that between 400 and 500 people had been killed and up to 800 wounded in the latest violence, and the government said it had arrested 10...

Indian police removed concrete security barriers outside the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for the treatment of an Indian diplomat who was strip-searched after her arrest in New York last week. The diplomatic spat was...

More than a million people from across the world - managers, maids, accountants and laborers - have left Saudi Arabia since March, after years or even decades working in the Gulf Arab state, which sustains its own citizens with...

China on Wednesday confirmed an incident between a Chinese naval vessel and a U.S. warship in the South China Sea, after Washington said a U.S. guided missile cruiser had avoided a collision with a Chinese warship maneuvering nearby. Experts have...

BARIS GULER (C IN SUNGLASSES), SON OF TURKEY'S INTERIOR MINISTER MUAMMER GULER, IS ESCORTED BY PLAINCLOTHES POLICE OFFICERS AS HE LEAVES A MEDICAL CHECK-UP IN ISTANBUL Five Turkish police commissioners were sacked a day after the sons of cabinet ministers...

DESIGNATED DEFENCE MINISTER URSULA VON DER LEYEN (C), GESTURES AS SHE STANDS BESIDE GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL (R) Angela Merkel was elected to a third term as chancellor in a vote in the German lower house of parliament on Tuesday,...