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  • Afghanistan welcomes Pakistani role in peace talks

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan has an "important" role to play in peace talks with the Taliban.

  • Complaints persist as US frees Afghan detainees

    The Pashtun tribal leaders picked at the chocolate cake and fruit laid out for them at the conference table. Politely, they listened to speeches touting a new program to release detainees from Afghanistan's largest U.S.-run military prison if community leaders vouch for them.

  • Afghan president says Pakistan has 'important' role to play in peace talks with Taliban.

  • Israel PM reprimands minister over settlement flap

    Israel's prime minister has reprimanded a top official over the announcement of new settlement construction during a high-profile visit by Vice President Joe Biden.
    But Benjamin Netanyahu is giving no indication that he will reverse the order.

  • Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from voting

    Not only is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi effectively barred from upcoming elections, but she will not be allowed to vote - and her opposition party's landslide win at the last polls has been formally invalidated, according to new election laws published Thursday.

  • Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person

    The naming of Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim as the world's richest person - the first from a developing nation - underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club.

  • Women in charge in West Bank's key district

    RAMALLAH, West Bank - At 35, Leila Ghanem is the first woman to become a Palestinian governor, the latest in a group of trailblazing women leaders who are slowly winning acceptance in this traditional society.

  • Pakistani diplomat: Kidnapped boy has been found

    Pakistani diplomat  Kidnapped boy has been found

    A British boy kidnapped from his family's home in Pakistan has been located, Pakistan's top diplomat in London said Thursday.

  • Report: Iran sentences professor to 6 years

    An Iranian appeals court sentenced a university professor to six years in prison for suspected involvement in the country's postelection turmoil, local media reported Thursday.

  • Deforestation conference to turn plans to action

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change.

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