MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) - The top U.N. envoy to Myanmar on Sunday toured a central city wracked by the country's worst Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, calling on the government to punish those responsible for a tragedy that left dozens of co... [Full Article]
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) - The top UN envoy to Myanmar toured a central city Sunday destroyed in the country's worst explosion of Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, calling on the government to punish those responsible for a tragedy that left do... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two rockets exploded in a southern Israeli town near the Gaza border on Thursday, the second day of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the Jewish state, Israeli police said. One of the rockets damaged the yard of an Isr... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Friday made a surprise visit to a Rome hospital to cheer up a fellow Argentine, a cardinal who had a heart attack the day the pontiff was elected. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's young leader urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Kore... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a bicycle struck outside the Afghan Defense Ministry on Saturday, killing at least nine Afghan civilians as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited Kabul, officials said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL (Reuters) - The United Nations imposed new sanctions on North Korea aimed at curtailing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and China, the isolated regime's only major ally, said it wanted the measures fully implement... [Full Article]
PARIS (AP) - France's defense minister made a surprise visit to Mali on Thursday to see French troops fighting extremists there, as military officials said at least 100 al-Qaida-linked fighters died in a two-week campaign to oust them from a roc... [Full Article]
AMMAN (Reuters) - Exiled opposition figure Moaz Alkhatib visited Syria on Sunday for the first time since fleeing last year, as rebels said President Bashar al-Assad's forces embarked on counter-offensives in various parts of the country. In the... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - The chief of the Syrian National Coalition has, for the first time, visited rebel-held areas near the embattled city of Aleppo in northern Syria. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]