During the past 20 years, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled from Somalia to Yemen, where they are granted automatic asylum. The Yemeni government now says it may change that, saying the Somalis are a burden and a security risk. But new laws...
Officials concerned insurgents could stage high-profile attacks to disrupt national parliamentary elections scheduled for March 7 Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo 25 January 2010 Iraqi police evacuate a victim of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan....
Those Taliban who are not part of al-Qaida or other terrorist networks are welcome to come back to their country and lay down arms and resume life under the constitution of Afghanistan. - Afghan President Hamid Karzai Afghan President Hamid Karzai sa...
Sri Lanka's government and the political opposition are trading accusations their respective rivals are preparing to use force to overturn the results of Tuesday's presidential election. Independent monitors, meanwhile, contend, the electoral process...
Voters, including Tamils displaced by the civil war, decided whether to extend the tenure of the incumbent president or replace him with his former top military chief. Steve Herman | Colombo 25 January 2010 Policeman giving instruction to voters at p...
The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will be handed out in Los Angeles on January 31. Once again, Roots performers are showing up in many different categories. Bob Dylan's performance of Beyond Here Lies Nothin' could earn the folk legend his second Grammy...
The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will be presented on January 31 in Los Angeles, California. The Zac Brown Band received three Grammy Award nominations, including Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals for its 2008 Number One debut singl...
The Obama administration and a top Republican lawmaker agree U.S. Central Bank Chief Ben Bernanke is likely to be confirmed for another term as the nation's top monetary official. To some in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is the ma...
U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing to deliver his State of the Union Address at a time of political turmoil in Washington. Voter anger is high, and a Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts has sent shock waves through the president's Democr...
The emotional aftershocks of the earthquake in Haiti that killed or wounded 100s of thousands of people and left millions homeless are still being felt in New York's thriving Haitian American community, nearly 2,500 kilometers and a world away. The H...
The historic earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, changed it's capital city Port-au-Prince forever. And while the American military has secured it's damaged port and streets, international aid organizations supply medical and food supplies and ca...
Iran's president says his country is resolved to produce its own highly enriched uranium if the West is unwilling to accept Iran's counter-proposal to a U.N. deal worked out last November. After presenting his his budget proposals to parliament, Iran...
Guinea's electoral commission and international donors are discussing plans to organize elections in six months. The vote is part of a regionally-backed transitional authority meant to end more than one year of military rule. Guinea's National Indepe...
Whatever Egypt's motives for its complicity with Israel, whether it reflects the extent to which it bows to U.S. and Israeli pressure, or is happy to use this as a lever against Hamas, those who are suffering are Gaza's civilian population. - HRW Reg...
An unusual political irony is reaching a climax on the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka. The two proclaimed heroes of the recently-ended quarter century civil war, who are openly accusing each other of war crimes, are facing off in the country'...
