Heather Murdock | Addis Ababa 01 June 2010 A coalition of six Ethiopian opposition parties has rejected recent election results and is calling for a new vote. Government officials say the ruling party's landslide victory reflects the will of the peop...
We have large numbers of travelers who are caught in Asia and in America and the main route home that is available at the moment is through the airports that are open in Europe and that is in Spain, said Gordon Brown, British PM Flights over Britain...
Tens of thousands of people attend a national memorial service in Pilsudski Square in Warsaw, 17 Apr 2010 Sirens wailed and church bells rang as an estimated 100,000 people gathered in the Polish capital to say goodbye to their former president. Many...
Women were putting water in the fields. They were saying, 'I want to save our food.' That is encouraging, to see how [the farmers] stand up again after this tragedy. In Jacmel, an area south of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, crops of sugar can...
By Daniel Schearf Singapore 11 November 2009 Foreign ministers at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum say they want to discourage trade protectionism. Business leaders at the gathering endorsed that idea and urged more open trade and investm...
By Akiko Fujita Tokyo 07 October 2009 Japan Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (file photo) Japan's new foreign minister has laid out his plan for his first 100 days in office, elaborating on discussions to build an East Asian Community and to alter the...
Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti, a top official for the Movement for Democratic Change, says he has received a threatening letter with a bullet inside. Biti says he received a letter Friday and felt there was something inside. He said he decid...
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are meeting with regional dialogue partners in Thailand to discuss challenges and cooperation. North Korea's nuclear programs and Burma's military government were high on the agenda....
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says it plans to withdraw about a third of its force in Kosovo by next year because the security situation has improved. The announcement came during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. U.S. Secret...
In a wide-ranging policy speech to India's Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed hopes of restarting peace talks with Pakistan. The prime minister also called for a high-level dialog with Australia, in response to recent racist att...
