President Barack Obama has made a personal appeal to the Burmese Prime Minister General Thein Sein for the release of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He delivered the message at an unprecedented meeting with leaders of the Association of S...
President Obama has joined leaders from the Asia Pacific region in Singapore for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Corporation Summit. Theyve so far been discussing how best to steer the global economy towards recovery. From Singapore, here is Rachel...
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The United States army has formally charged a military officer accused of carrying out last weeks mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. The officer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, has been under armed guard in a hospi...
Egypt has welcomed the jail sentence given by a German court to a man who murdered a pregnant Egyptian woman. In a statement the foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said the life sentence, which he noted was the maximum punishment under German law...
President Barack Obama has told the memorial service at the Fort Hood army base in Texas that the Untied States must never forget the 13 men and women who died in the shooting there last week. He said the killings couldnt be justified. It may be hard...
World leaders have been speaking in Berlin at special ceremonies to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which changed the political face of Europe. After a day of celebrations attended by tens of thousands of people, the leaders...
After weeks of wrangling, the Iraqi parliament has passed a law which allows a general election to be held as planned in January although the exact date has yet to be set. A decision had been delayed more than 10 times as MPs couldn't agree on issues...
Finance ministers of the world's leading industrialized and developing countries, the G20, have agreed to continue supporting the global economic recovery. In a statement released after their meeting in Scotland, the ministers said conditions had imp...
President Obama has urged Americans not to jump to conclusions about the motives of an army major who went on a shooting spree at a military base in Texas on Thursday. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is a Muslim of Palestinian descent, killed 12 soldier...
