2012-03-14
PARIS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not appear at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's election rallies, but the two are set to meet before the April-May French presidential election,...
2012-03-14
The International Criminal court is about to deliver its first verdict, almost a decade after its launched. On Wednesday, the court will pass judgement on the Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga....
2012-03-14
The United States, the European Union and Japan filed complaints Tuesday with the World Trade Organization charging that China is limiting its export of rare earths, minerals that are vital to the...
2012-03-13
Hizballah's response to military action against Iran could be shaped by rational cost-benefit analysis, a perceived spiritual obligation to defend its Shiite patron in Tehran, or both. The potential...
2012-03-13
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday stressed the need for a “credible and independent investigation” into the allegations of human rights violations and killings during the...
2012-03-13
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has called parliamentary elections for May 7, even as monitors said fresh violence cost nearly 50 lives and a pro-regime daily reported the capture of a rebel city....
2012-03-13
New Republic, March 13, 2012 Turkey's boldest response to the crisis in Syria came last week, when Prime Minister Erdogan called for the establishment of humanitarian aid corridors to help civilians...
2012-03-13
GAZA (Reuters) - An Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and militant groups in the Gaza Strip was largely observed on Tuesday after four days of violence in which 25 Palestinians were killed and...
2012-03-13
Barack Obama insists deaths do not change US commitment to Afghanistan and says those responsible will be punished Obama said: 'I've directed the Pentagon to make sure that we spare no effort in...
2012-03-13
Ivory Coast's president has appointed a new prime minister. The announcement Tuesday comes nearly a week after Guillaume Soro resigned from the post in order to...
2012-03-13
Continued inefficient use of water could threaten Europe's economy, productivity and ecosystems, a report has warned. The European Environment Agency (EEA) said that water resources were under...
2012-03-13
He told Euro MPs that the European Union "may be turning a corner" towards stability and growth, following a summit two weeks ago which approved tough new controls on eurozone economies and...
2012-03-13
Former Sun editor held by Operation Weeting detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice Fomer Sun and News of the World editor, was among six arrested today in Operation...
2012-03-13
The deadly tornadoes that ripped across the Midwest and South last week did not damage all states the same, federal officials have ruled. So far, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has named two...
2012-03-13
More than 8,000 people have died since anti-government protests erupted in Syria a year ago, a UN official says. UN General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser said many women and children...
2012-03-13
David Cameron and Barack Obama have described the "unique and essential" relationship between the US and UK ahead of a visit by the prime minister to Washington. In a joint article for the...
2012-03-13
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, opening the first major legal battle among big technology companies...
2012-03-13
Barack Obama has warned against "a rush for the exits" in Afghanistan as questions mount about US war strategy after a soldier's shooting rampage killed 16 civilians. In a string of...
2012-03-13
A 22-year sentence was unreasonably lenient for Al Qaeda-trained terrorist Ahmed Ressam, who drove a trunk full of powerful explosives into the United States from Canada with the intent of bombing Los...
2012-03-12
The five-point programme agreed upon in Cairo on March 10 between the Arab League and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicates that Moscow is re-thinking its position, very slowly, vis-a-vis...
2012-03-12
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged Syria's president to swiftly end his regime's bloody crackdown and appealed to the divided UN Security Council to unite and help the country "pull back from the brink of...
2012-03-12
AFP - A global meeting on water opened in France on Monday with demands to provide billions of poor people with clean water and decent sanitation and address the spiralling demands of the future. "The...
2012-03-12
GEIR MOULSON Associated Press= BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel made a one-day trip Monday to visit German troops in northern Afghanistan and offered President Hamid Karzai her condolences over...
2012-03-12
BEIRUT - UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has ended talks with President Bashar al-Assad and left Syria with little sign of progress on halting the country's growing political bloodshed. "I am...
2012-03-12
LONDON (Reuters) - Seven leading European aviation companies have written to European political leaders warning about the implications of a recently introduced EU carbon tax, the Financial Times...