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Syrian rebels slam Assad inaction on Israeli raid
Syrian opposition leaders and rebels on Friday slammed President Bashar Assad for not responding to a rare Israeli airstrike near Damascus, calling ...
As she leaves, Clinton sounds warning over Syria
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a parting warning Thursday about Syria's civil war, accusing Iran of playing an increasingly ...
Syria threatens retaliation for Israeli airstrike
Syria threatened Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said the Jewish state will regret the attack. Syria sent a letter ...
Iran says it will speed up nuclear program
In a defiant move ahead of nuclear talks, Iran has announced plans to vastly increase its pace of uranium enrichment, which can make both reactor fuel ...
Roadside bomb kills 2 polio workers in NW Pakistan
A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani polio workers on their way to vaccinate children in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border on ...
Syria opposition leader would talk to Assad regime
Syria's top opposition leader declared on Wednesday that he is willing to negotiate with members of President Bashar Assad's regime to bring a ...
Gulf leads UN appeal for major boost in Syrian aid
An emergency U.N. appeal to raise $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid for Syria exceeded its goal Wednesday at a conference with dire predictions of ...
Timbuktu manuscripts mostly safe, university says
Islamist extremists damaged or stole only a limited number of manuscripts in Timbuktu in Mali before they fled the fabled desert city, a South African ...
Flood waters recede in Mozambique
Flood waters have begun receding in Mozambique, and residents have started returning to the worst-hit city. The United Nations Resident Coordinator ...
Report: Ivory Coast gov't lacks impartiality
Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those ...
Peace envoy says Syria is 'being destroyed'
The international envoy to Syria told the Security Council on Tuesday that "Syria is being destroyed bit by bit" and his mediation effort cannot go ...
UN: Mozambique floods displace 150k, leave 38 dead
A U.N. official in flood-hit Mozambique says at least $15 million in aid is needed to help after flood waters have killed 38 people and displaced ...
Policeman protecting Pakistani polio team killed
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer protecting polio workers during a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern ...
Israel is a no-show at its UN human rights review
Israel became the first nation to skip a U.N. review of its human rights record without giving a reason — and then won a precedent-setting deferral ...
Donors pledge $455 million to Mali military push
African and Western nations on Tuesday pledged more than $450 million to fund an African-led military force to fight Islamist extremists in Mali.
UN: Syrian refugees overwhelm Jordan camp
A wave of 21,000 Syrian refugees in the past week, moving into northern Jordan at about five times the usual daily rate, has overwhelmed this crowded ...
China urged to face Philippines at UN tribunal
A senior U.S. lawmaker meeting with Philippine officials said Tuesday that China should agree to face the Philippines before a U.N.
Congo deal delayed at African Union meeting
A large-scale peace agreement to end fighting in Congo that would see more peacekeeping forces enter the region was delayed Monday over what the ...
UN humanitarian chief in Syria for talks
The United Nations humanitarian chief was in Damascus on Sunday for talks with Syrian officials about the nation's conflict, which has forced millions ...
African leaders meet in Ethiopia amid Mali crisis
African leaders met in the Ethiopian capital Sunday for talks dominated by the conflict in Mali as well as lingering territorial issues between the ...
North Korean leader vows strong action
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take "substantial and high-profile important ...
Report: UN doc links Britons to Somalia kidnapping
The Times of London says a secret section of a United Nations report has linked British citizens with Somali piracy. The newspaper says that a 2012 ...
UN group OKs new video format to save bandwidth
The U.N. telecommunications agency says its members have agreed upon a new compression format that could dramatically cut the amount of Internet ...
Syrian forces escalate offensive in Homs
Syria's army unleashed a barrage of rocket and artillery fire on rebel-held areas in a central province Friday as part of a widening offensive against ...