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The United States on Monday offered $32.5 million in assistance to Southeast Asian nations, more than half to Vietnam, to boost maritime security, which comes as tension grows with China over rival claims in the South China Sea. On his...

U.S. Senator John McCain met Ukrainian opposition leaders in Kiev on Saturday and voiced support for protesters camped out for weeks in the capital, a move sure to anger Moscow for what it sees as Western meddling in its...

The body of Nelson Mandela arrived on Saturday at his ancestral home in the rolling hills of South Africa's Eastern Cape and was greeted by singing, dancing locals ahead of the anti-apartheid leader's state funeral set for the following...

A suspected grenade attack on a minibus in Kenya's capital on Saturday killed at least four people near a Somali-dominated area of the city, police said, an incident that mirrors explosions last year that were blamed on Somali militants. Last...

Domestic support for a French peacekeeping operation in Central African Republic has fallen quickly since the deaths of two young soldiers, a poll showed on Saturday. Nicolas Vokaer, 23, and Antoine Le Quinio, 22, were killed in a firefight during...

JANG SONG THAEK, WITH HIS HANDS TIED WITH A ROPE, IS DRAGGED INTO THE COURT BY UNIFORMED PERSONNEL   North Korea has executed the powerful uncle of young leader Kim Jong Un, state media said on Friday, the biggest upheaval in...

AKE SELLSTROM (L), HEAD OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC, HANDS HIS REPORT OVER TO SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS, BAN KI-MOON Chemical weapons were likely used...

At least four people were killed in Bangladesh on Friday when supporters of Islamist leader Abdul Quader Mollah vented their fury at his execution for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. The decision to hang...

CHIEF OF INDONESIA'S GOLKAR PARTY, ABURIZAL BAKRIE Indonesia's autocratic former President Suharto left office in disgrace, his political empire and the economy in ruin, but 15 years later, his old ruling party hopes nostalgia for his legacy will sweep it...

The leader of a protest group trying to overthrow Thailand's government and scrap planned elections said on Friday the prime minister should either step down or be forced out, and his movement would then need around a year to...