Iran has rejected the US offer to provide the Tehran government with an alternative way to obtain medical isotopes. "The US proposal is illogical as Iranian patients are in need of medicine," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on ...

Sri Lanka police fired tear gas Wednesday at protesters demanding the release of defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka. The factionalized opposition faces dim prospects in just-announced April elections.

Viktor Yanukovych, the winner of Ukraine's presidential election, has called on his rival to abandon her protests and resign as prime minister.

Photo: AP Soldiers and local volunteers in northern Afghanistan have found more bodies and survivors from recent avalanches along a well-traveled mountain road.

DAKAR, Senegal - Nigeria's National Assembly voted Tuesday to make Vice President Goodluck Jonathan the acting president, filling a power vacuum that has unsettled Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, since President Umaru Yar'Adua ...

By John O'Donnell STRASBOURG, France, Feb 9 (Reuters) - European legislators approved the make up of the next European Commission on Tuesday, clearing the way for the executive to take office after months of delay and with a wealth of policy issues to ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian appeal court has reduced to five years the jail sentence for an Iranian-American scholar detained after last year's disputed election and accused of espionage, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD -- A senior Pakistani official said Wednesday there was credible information that Hakimullah Mehsud, head of the Pakistan Taliban, died of wounds inflicted by a US missile strike last month in the first official statement ...

Palestinian Authority not rattled by claims made by former anti-corruption official that senior figures stole millions from public coffers and that sex tape found of Abbas personnel with woman office candidate.

South American leaders are holding a summit in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito, to discuss how to help Haiti recover from last month's earthquake.

A suicide bomber has struck a police patrol vehicle in Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border, killing 13 people, including seven policemen, officials said.

When former president Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison just outside Cape Town on February 11, 1990, South Africans who had endured years of oppression under Apartheid looked forward to living ...

BEIJING—China's purchases of commodities and other goods from abroad appeared to slow in January from the high rates of recent months, according to new figures, though price swings and holidays made the trend unusually ...

Earthquakes can be the ultimate test of government. In Haiti, last month's earthquake all but destroyed what little government there was to begin with.

A border security soldier of South Korea checks a bus carrying a South Korean delegation at the CIQ (customs, immigration and quarantine) office, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul February 8, 2010.

US Marines walk during a dust storm in a US Marines camp near the town of Marjah in Nad Ali district of Helmand province, February 8, 2010.

Israeli warplanes have hit southern Gaza with missiles in response to rocket fire from Palestinian militants, the military said. The airstrikes reportedly hit Gaza's disused Yasser Arafat airport near the border town of Rafah, but no injuries have been ...

Zimbabwe's prime minister has dismissed the official announcement of government legislation requiring all businesses operating in the country to be 51 per cent owned by blacks.

Four men with the British-Australian outfit are accused of soliciting bribes from steel companies and stealing commercial secrets.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Four weeks after an earthquake shattered its capital, Haiti remains in a precarious situation with no clear idea of how to house 1 million people living in the streets, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said on Tuesday.