Recent Taliban attacks on both sides of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan have targeted trucks carrying NATO supplies near Peshawar, Afghan government buildings and a U.S. military base in Khost province. Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai said...
Africa's biggest investors and lenders are making available another $15 billion to help the continent weather the global financial crisis. President of African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka in Dakar, 12 May 2009 The $15 billion is meant to promot...
Australia plans an overhaul of its armed forces in preparation for a more volatile Asia-Pacific region caused by the United States' fading dominance and China's rise. The government plans to buy 12 submarines along with an array of ships, helicopter...
Scientists and politicians have gathered in the Indonesian city of Manado for the World Ocean Conference. They are discussing the role of oceans in mitigating climate change and how climate change affects the world's seas, but their efforts are hamp...
Animal welfare groups are taking legal action to try to stop the killing of up to 6,000 kangaroos on a military camp near the Australian capital, Canberra. Conservationists have stormed the base to protest the cull. Officials say an overpopulation o...
World Bank President Robert Zoellick says the outlook for the global economy remains uncertain, but China might help to foster global economic recovery. Robert Zoellick (File photo) World Bank President Zoellick spoke Tuesday to a global private equ...
Russia is a member of the six-party talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program. It has often sided with China to prevent tough U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang. Unused nuclear fuel rods are piled on shelves of wareh...
UN aid agencies are expanding and speeding up their relief operations to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in Pakistan's northwest province. A UNHCR charter plane carrying 120 tons of relief supplies for people fleeing the fighti...
Tamil Tiger rebels say Sri Lanka's military has renewed shelling Tuesday of the only remaining combat zone. The top government doctor in the rebel-controlled territory says at least 45 patients died when a mortar hit the admissions ward of the only...
Chad is threatening to sever diplomatic relations with Sudan after the military says it beat back an assault by rebels based in Sudan. Khartoum denies it is behind that rebellion and says Sudan is ready to fight rebels it says are backed by Chad. Id...