Mauritania's military rulers have released the country's former prime minister who has been jailed since last August when the government was overthrown in a coup. The release is part of a power-sharing agreement between the military and its politica...
The government has approved plans for Australia's biggest wind farm to be built near the outback town of Broken Hill in New South Wales. Almost 600 turbines will generate enough electricity for more than 400,000 homes. A forest of giant turbines wil...
Mining heavyweights Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton will combine their large Australian iron ore operations. It follows the collapse of a controversial deal that would have seen the Chinese take an 18 percent stake in Rio Tinto, which is beset with large...
One day after delivering a speech to the Muslim world, U.S. President Barack Obama pushed for progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and in negotiations on Iran's nuclear ambitions. The president spoke after talks with German Chancellor An...
North and South Korea have arranged a meeting next week to discuss operations at a troubled joint industrial zone. South Korea is expected to use the meeting to press for the release of a South Korean manager of the zone who has been detained by the...
The United Nations' special representative on human rights in Sudan has completed an 11-day visit to the country. Among other issues, she raised particular concern with the recent wave of tribal violence in the country's south, urging the semi-auton...
Unidentified gunmen have killed a presidential candidate in Guinea Bissau. Campaigning is due to start Saturday for an election to replace long-time president Joao Bernardo Vieira who was assassinated in March. State radio says gunmen broke into the...
When cricket teams from India and Pakistan met on the pitch this week, it raised hopes of a thaw in relations that were strained in last years terror attacks on the Indian commercial capital Mumbai. India blamed those attacks on suspected Pakistani-...
President Dmitri Medvedev is again proposing major international economic reforms even as he acknowledges that over-reliance on extractive industries, corruption, and inflation are hampering modernization of the Russian economy. Russian President Dm...
A suicide bomber killed at least 32 people at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday just hours before top U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke declared the Pakistani mood has turned decidedly against Islamic extremism. Top U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke...
