By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- UN officials on Tuesday put the number of rapes and other sexual attacks in eastern Congo since late July at more than 500, more than double the previous estimate.

Two American soldiers were killed and nine were injured Tuesday when a man wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on them in an Iraqi commando compound in the province of Salahuddin, an attack that ...

Reporting from Paris-- More than 1 million people went on strike and into the streets of France on Tuesday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal to raise the legal retirement age.

PARIS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Iran needs to answer the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its nuclear programme.

European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says he will field new proposals by the end of the month to tackle some of the actions of market speculators, who many have blamed for making the financial crisis worse.

Mark Graham / AP Prime Minister Julia Gillard has retained power by the slimmest margin but now faces the task of running a minority government in Australia's most divided Parliament in 70 years.

Rightist ZOA head: If PM talks about giving away parts of J'lem, or if freeze partially continues, we and other groups will speak out.

(CNN) -- North Korea's political leaders are expected to meet this month in a rare gathering, possibly to set the stage for the handover of power from Kim Jong Il to his youngest son.

A powerful suicide bomb blast Tuesday tore through a police compound in the northwestern Pakistani town of Kohat, killing at least 14 people, the latest in a string of attacks carried out by Islamic ...

Ireland's Government must resist any temptation to make cuts in education spending if it wants to develop the smart economy, the American Chamber of Commerce has warned.

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has flown to Rwanda to discuss the country's threat to withdraw its UN peacekeepers from Sudan if the United Nations publishes a report accusing Rwanda's army of possible genocide in the 1990s.

The BBC is locked in talks with the government over drastic cuts to the World Service budget which could force it to withdraw from Burma and several other countries.

A diplomatic row has intensified between China and Japan after collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler on Tuesday.

The cost of the earthquake that struck the New Zealand city of Christchurch could exceed NZ$4 billion ($2.9 billion), according to revised Treasury Department estimates.

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- In the aftermath of riots that killed 13 people and left over 400 injured, the Mozambican government announced Tuesday that it would implement a price subsidy program to offset price hikes on virtually all basic ...

MANILA, Philippines—Feared and loathed by his enemies, Andal Ampatuan Jr. is the heir apparent of a powerful Muslim clan in the southern Philippines whose family history is written in blood.

Angelina Jolie touched down in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday to meet with victims of a recent flood -- reportedly the worst natural disaster in the country's history.

SOCHI, Russia—Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who subjected President Barack Obama to a tirade last year during their only meeting, offered unusually warm words for the American leader Monday, ...

CHINA IS looking to expand its influence in south Asia at India's expense, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh warned in rare public criticism of his country's nuclear rival for regional resources and geopolitical clout.

(CNN) -- Contradictory reports swirled around the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, with one Iranian lawyer saying Monday that she had been whipped 99 times for another alleged offense but another casting doubt on ...