The United States and South Africa struck a deal Thursday to allow the release of $1.5 billion in frozen Libya funds for humanitarian aid and other civilian needs, UN diplomats ...
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il is on Wednesday expected to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a Siberian military base for secrecy-shrouded summit talks on energy and food aid.
The criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, officially ended Tuesday after a Manhattan judge dismissed all charges at the prosecution’s request.
Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of Tripoli Monday after their swift advance on the capital heralded the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year regime.
Jack Layton, the New Democratic Party leader who led his party to Official Opposition status in this year’s federal election, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 61.
Thein Sein, the Burmese president, has met Aung San Suu Kyi, his regime’s harshest critic, for the first time since she was released from house arrest nine months ago, adding ...
Israel's defence minister has apologized for the deaths of Egyptian security forces killed this week during a shootout between Israeli soldiers and suspected Palestinian militants.
Gunmen who crossed from the Egyptian desert launched a series of attacks Thursday in southern Israel, killing eight people and threatening to destabilize a volatile border region that includes the ...