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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 ...
Indonesia readies for $1 trillion trade talks
Indonesia may hold the key to a $1 trillion injection into the global economy. That's how much the World Trade Organization believes is riding on ...
Shell, Ukraine in shale gas agreement
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has signed a 50-year profit sharing deal with the government of Ukraine to explore and drill for natural gas in shale ...
Guyana pledges to protect jaguars
The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator ...
Buoyed by Obama, leaders press for climate action
Hurricanes, floods, droughts and a newly climate-conscious Barack Obama are helping boost efforts around the world to fight climate change.
Cyprus signs gas drilling deal with consortium
Cyprus signed a deal on Thursday allowing a consortium of foreign companies to drill for natural gas off the island's southern coast.
Report: Myanmar still recruits child soldiers
Myanmar is still recruiting and using child soldiers, despite embracing democratic reforms and a U.N. agreement to end the practice, a human rights ...
Cameron proposes British vote on EU relationship
British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Wednesday to offer citizens a vote on whether to leave the European Union if his party wins the next ...
AP Interview: UN chief wants action on climate
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says his top hopes for 2013 are to reach a new agreement on climate change and to urgently end the increasingly ...
Israeli PM faces tough choice if re-elected
After a lackluster three-month campaign, few doubt that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to re-election. But the makeup of Netanyahu's ...
More than 140 nations adopt treaty to cut mercury
A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted Saturday by more than 140 nations, capping four ...
Nationals trade Morse to Seattle in 3-team deal
The Mariners added some much-needed power to their lineup Wednesday, acquiring Michael Morse from Washington in a three-team deal that moved catcher ...
Egypt's Morsi tries to defuse flap over Jews slur
Egypt's Islamist president sought Wednesday to defuse Washington's anger over his past remarks urging hatred of Jews and calling Zionists "pigs" and ...
Second presidential terms loaded with setbacks
Second presidential terms are never easy — even for George Washington. More often, they're fraught with peril, frequently marred by scandal, failure, ...
US condemns comments from Egypt's Morsi
The Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made almost three years ago about Jews ...
Ugandan, US forces hunting LRA welcome CAR truce
Ugandan soldiers and U.S forces who are pursuing the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army in the jungles of the Central African Republic say ...
More than 130 nations begin mercury treaty talks
Delegates from more than 130 nations began a final round of negotiations on Sunday that are expected to lead to the creation of the first legally ...
1963 at 50: A year's tumult echoes still
A new year was just beginning — an extraordinary year, in which so much would change. Half a century ago, on Jan. 14, 1963, George Wallace took the ...
Peace deal announced for C. African Republic
Central African Republic President Francois Bozize and the rebels who sought to overthrow him have reached a deal that will allow him to stay in ...
Israel president warns of new Palestinian uprising
Israel's president has warned that the Palestinians are liable to launch a new uprising if the Jewish state doesn't do more to try to reach a peace ...
UN finds rising mercury emissions, need for treaty
Mercury pollution in the top layer of the world's oceans has doubled in the past century, part of a man-made problem that will require international ...
AP Interview: Palestinian PM warns of cash crisis
The Palestinian self-rule government is in "extreme jeopardy" because of an unprecedented financial crisis, largely because Arab countries have failed ...
Cyprus president: no privatization in bailout deal
Cyprus' president said Wednesday he would refuse any request by international lenders to sell off state-owned companies as part of a finalized ...
Unprecedented east Jerusalem building in pipeline
Israel is planning its biggest construction surge in east Jerusalem in decades in a move that critics argue would cement its grip on the contested ...
Egypt's Morsi: constitution dawn of new republic
Egypt's Islamist president proclaimed the country's newly adopted constitution as the dawning of a "new republic" in a television address Wednesday, ...