West African nations will send a high-level mission to Moscow, in a bid to persuade the Russian government to accept tougher action against Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo, the Financial Times reported, citing unidentified diplomats and regional...

South Korea said it was willing to meet North Korea only if the talks discuss how Kim Jong Il’s regime is going to take responsibility for last year’s attacks that killed 50 of its people. “For any meaningful dialogue, we need North Korea to take...

In wake of int’l condemnation, Netanyahu’s bureau defends construction of Jewish homes in e. J’lem neighborhood: “State of Israel can’t ban Jews purchasing private property in J’lem”

WASHINGTON— A review of President Obama’s strategy for the war in Afghanistan concludes that American forces can begin withdrawing on schedule in July, despite finding uneven signs of progress in the year since the president announced the deployment...

A Southwest Florida woman who visited family in the disease-stricken Artibonite Valley of Haiti and a Haitian construction worker who lives in the eastern Dominican Republic but recently spent two weeks in Port-au-Prince became the first people to...

A colonel in Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, identified as “Colonel Shcherbakov,” gave the United States information on a Russian spy ring in the United States that was broken up this past June, according to a report in the...

The U.S. delegation walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday after he said some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, staged in an attempt to assure...

Colin Powell has released a statement saying that he did not misrepresent how the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy would be put into effect to former President Clinton. Mr. Clinton said in an interview with CBS News’ Katie...

The United States under President George W. Bush was prepared to take in 100,000 Palestinian refugees as part of a Middle East peace deal, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday. “The United States was ready to take in 100,000...

German gambling restrictions breach European Union law, the EU’s highest court has ruled.