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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was flying to Russia on Friday to meet Vladimir Putin, a news agency reported, seeking aid to shore up a creaking economy while protesters back home, opposed to his U-turn away from Europe, defied police. Quoting...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel toured an anti-mine warfare ship in the U.S. Fifth Fleet on Friday to underscore U.S. commitment to Middle East security despite policy differences over Iran and Syria that have angered Washington's longtime Gulf allies. His visit...

Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday. Mandela was 95. "He is now resting. He is now...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, December 05, (THEWILL) –  Former South African President Nelson Mandela is dead, South African President, Mr. Jacob Zuma, told the press on Thursday night. Mr. Mandela was 95 years old.

Gunfire echoed through the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday in the heaviest clashes there for months, hours before the U.N. was expected to authorize a French mission to curb escalating Muslim-Christian sectarian violence. Former rebels controlling Bangui said...

At least 20 people were killed on Thursday in a car bomb and gun battle at the Yemeni defense ministry compound in the capital Sanaa, sources inside the complex said, in one of the most serious attacks in the...

U.S. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN (L) CHATS WITH CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG DURING THEIR MEETING AT THE ZHONGNANHAI DIPLOMATIC COMPOUND IN BEIJING   China's new air defense identification zone over the East China Sea has caused "significant" unease in the region,...

Pakistan's flamboyant chief justice has strengthened human rights but his inconsistent choice of cases has left the Supreme Court vulnerable to accusations of partisan intervention, a global group of 60 eminent judges and lawyers said on Thursday. Chief Justice Iftikhar...

AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER JULIE BISHOP (L) TALKS TO HER INDONESIAN COUNTERPART MARTY NATALEGAWA AFTER THEIR MEETING AS THEY LEAVE NATALEGAWA'S OFFICE IN JAKARTA   Indonesia and Australia announced on Thursday that they would set up a hotline as part of efforts...

France will tell African leaders at a Paris summit on Friday it will no longer play policeman on the continent, even as it prepares to act in a new conflict in Central African Republic after its Mali intervention this...