SEOUL—Midlevel military officials from South and North Korea ended two days of talks Wednesday without agreeing to higher-level discussions, closing for now a slim opening they had created to discuss a flare-up of tensions over the past year. The...

CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak struck back at his opponents, unleashing waves of his supporters armed with clubs, rocks, knives and firebombs in a concerted assault on thousands of anti government protesters in Tahrir Square calling for an end to his...

The French Defence Minister Alain Juppe has defended the decision to launch a rescue attempt for two French men who had been kidnapped in Niger.

TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) — The nuclear policies of Iran would not change after the replacement of former Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday.

At least one man has been shot dead in clashes with UN peacekeepers in Haiti, amid a continuing cholera epidemic that has killed more than 900 people. UN troops fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators throwing stones and blocking roads in Cap...

The U.S. welcomes the Russian president’s decree to prohibit the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems and other weapons to Iran, a White House official said. National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer welcomed the move as a...

Sanity — or humanity, whatever you want to call it — prevailed today in Florida when an appeals court overturned the state ban on gay adoption. This backs a lower court ruling that found the explicit proscription against gay and lesbians...

China told the United States not to interfere in a regional dispute over claims to the South China Sea, saying it would only complicate the matter. Japan’s NHK TV reported last week that the United States and southeast Asian countries may...

Thousands of residents were evacuated as a powerful typhoon struck Taiwan, flooding the southern part of the island, crippling transport and shutting off power. Typhoon Fanapi was the first major storm to strike the island this year. It later reached...

Teresa Lewis Will Be the First U.S. Woman Executed in the Last Five Years Teresa Lewis is currently on death row for paying two men to kill her husband Julian Clifton Lewis and her stepson Charles J. Lewis, and then offering herself and her 16-year-old...