Gaza suffers drop in foreign aid over Syrian war
A refugee from Syria recently opened a bakery here, drawing long lines of customers eager to taste meat and cheese pastries with the special flavors ...
AP Interview: Bleak outlook for West Bank economy
The Palestinians this week replaced one internationally respected, U.S.-trained economist with another in hopes of solving long-running problems in ...
Senate passes half-trillion dollar farm bill
The Senate on Monday passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while ...
Prestigious forum draws decision-makers to Myanmar
Myanmar prepared Wednesday to show off what two years of reform-minded elected government has accomplished as it welcomed business titans and ...
Senate votes on small changes to int'l food aid
The Senate on Monday voted to make modest changes to the way international food aid is delivered, a much scaled-back version of an overhaul proposed ...
White House promises veto of GOP spending plan
The White House stepped in Monday with a veto threat against a House GOP plan to advance a round of 2014 spending bills that would ease ...
Taliban deny attacking Red Cross in Afghanistan
The Taliban on Friday denied any role in this week's attack on an International Committee of the Red Cross compound in eastern Afghanistan, saying ...
NKorea sanctions squeeze cash for aid groups
New international sanctions aimed at thwarting North Korea's nuclear weapons program are having unintended consequences: halting money transfers by ...
Kerry: US, allies ready to step up aid to rebels
The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the ...
Nations pledge billions to rebuild Mali
A plan to turn Mali into a stable democracy rather than a terrorist haven drew massive support Wednesday as various nations and international ...
Obama, SKorea show united front against Pyongyang
Projecting a united front, President Barack Obama and South Korea's new leader warned North Korea on Tuesday against further nuclear provocations, ...
Correction: Somalia-Famine Deaths story
In a story April 29 about a report estimating the number of Somalis who died in the country's 2011 famine, The Associated Press erroneously reported ...
London hosts Somalia meeting to aid post-war gains
Somalia's president over the weekend received the country's first pieces of mail in more than two decades. It's the kind of small but hopeful ...
Syrian troops capture key town near Damascus
After five weeks of battle, Syrian government troops captured a strategic town near Damascus, cutting an arms route for rebels trying to topple ...
USAID head says food aid changes are urgent
The head of the Obama administration's international food aid efforts says a proposal to shift the way food is delivered abroad could help an ...
Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad resigns
Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad resigned on Saturday, leaving the Palestinians without one of their most moderate and well-respected voices ...
Looking for logic in North Korea's threats
To the outside world, the talk often appears to border on the lunatic, with the poor, hungry and electricity-starved nation threatening to lay waste ...
Aid groups: US should send cash, not food, abroad
Food aid groups are urging the Obama administration to overhaul the way the United States helps starving people abroad. The White House will not say ...
Iran, NKorea, Syria block UN arms trade treaty
Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade for the first time, ...
BRICS plan development bank to fund infrastructure
Leaders of five of the world's emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure ...
Kerry meets again with Afghan President Karzai
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met again Tuesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a day after they put on a show of unity as they tried to end ...
Momentum weakened for Assad's ouster in Syria
Foes of Syrian President Bashar Assad are distracted by fragmentation within their ranks, foreign meddling and new finger-pointing over chemical ...
Car bomb at Pakistani refugee camp kills 13
A car packed with explosives blew up inside a refugee camp on Thursday, killing 13 people in an attack that underscored the intensity of the conflict ...
Survey: Many conflicted on gov't spending cuts
As President Barack Obama and lawmakers spar over huge federal deficits, they're confronted by a classic contradiction: Most Americans want government ...
Afghans worry about international aid vacuum
Afghan street children are packed into classrooms, raising their hands to answer math questions and bending their heads over art projects as part of ...
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