Rwandan rebels have killed at least 50 civilians in May in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Twenty-two of them died in an attack Monday in the village of Kamananga in Sud-Kivu province, the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA said,....Read Full Article ...
UNITED NATIONS: Muammar Gaddafi’s son is refusing to name a defense lawyer, a top Libyan diplomat said Wednesday amid growing questions over the conditions in ...
Senior diplomats from the United States and from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations are holding their regular meetings in Manila this week a...
Syrian government must give a chance to peace plan put forward by the representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States-General Kofi Annan, Ir...
United Nations believe that it is not appropriate to talk about the electoral process in Cyprus, noting that the most important thing is that the negotiations ...
On 12 April soldiers deposed the government in Guinea-Bissau, marking another coup in a country in which no leader since independence has completed a full term. Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior, widely expected to win...
In Mali military officers overthrew President Amadou Toumani Touré in a coup on 22 March. The takeover followed a mutiny demanding better weapons to fight the Tuareg rebellion advancing across the north. Throughout the month...
In Syria, the Assad regime?s brutal crackdown on protesters and civilians, including the continued shelling of central city Homs, reached an unprecedented scale, exacerbating fears of outright civil war. The UN reported over 7,500 killed...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...