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Arab League chief: Peacekeepers needed in Syria
The international community should deploy a peacekeeping force, instead of the U.N.'s existing, beleaguered observer mission, to help end the killing ...
AP PHOTOS: Bono's many brushes with greatness
Chances are if you're a president, premier or plain ol' peacemaker with an eye on publicity, you've managed to get a bit of Bono in your life.
Al-Qaida urges Egypt to cancel treaty with Israel
Al-Qaida's leader has urged Egypt to cancel its peace treaty with Israel and to establish Islamic rule, according to an audio message released Sunday.
Iran, 6 powers both need success at nuclear talks
Iran and six world powers resume nuclear talks Monday no closer to progress than in previous rounds, and with the clock ticking on international ...
UN observers in Syria suspend patrols
U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan ...
Suu Kyi to give Nobel Peace speech 21 years later
It's been 21 years, and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is about to give her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. The 66-year-old champion ...
Using new media, Chinese try out food activism
Shanghai grad student Wu Heng hadn't planned to become a food activist but he couldn't stop himself after reading a news story about cooks slathering ...
After 21 years, Suu Kyi finally reaches Nobel home
It has taken more than two decades, countless lonely nights and imponderable hardships for Aung San Suu Kyi to reach the Oslo podium. But Myanmar's ...
Russia denies discussing Syria's post-Assad future
Russia's foreign minister said Friday that Moscow isn't discussing Syria's future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed, in the ...
Syria observer chief says violence derails mission
The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, ...
Colombia's legendary police chief heads to Mexico
A signature trophy that Gen. Oscar Naranjo has carefully displayed in glass at Police Intelligence headquarters is odd by any measure: the neatly ...
Myanmar conflict spurs hatred for Asia's outcasts
They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse — when their existence is even acknowledged. Asia's more than 1 million ethnic ...
US envoy: North Korean isolation hides suffering
The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news ...
UN monitors shot at on way to Syrian massacre site
Unarmed United Nations monitors came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the scene of the latest mass killing in Syria, U.N.