Maya Shwayder

The World Food Programme is scaling up their operations in Syria for the approximate 1.2 million displaced Syrians as winter approaches.

Vatican official Pierbattista Pizzaballa has spoken out on the string of attacks against Christian monasteries and churches in Israel.

U.N. diplomats and Holocaust survivors gathered at New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage on Wednesday evening to commemorate Raoul Wallenberg, the Swede who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews.

Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to meet with President Obama on Wednesday.

Same-sex couples still can't get married in Australia, but that might be changing soon.

The Palestinian Authority's budget is short some $400 million, a gap that will remain and cause serious fiscal difficulties, even if all donors fulfill their 2012 pledges to Palestine, the World Bank warned on Wednesday.

Speaking in Union Square on Tuesday, Salman Rushdie expounded on the current riots over the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," read from his new book "Joseph Anton," and mused about his life after "The Satanic Verses."

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to meet with Hillary Clinton and receive the Congressional Gold Medal for her human rights work.

Romney's stance on Palestine, the two-state solution with Israel, and the peace process, were made abundantly clear in a recording obtained by Mother Jones. Thus far in the campaign, Romney's foreign policy statements in general have shown that he's not afraid to say what's on his mind.

After a string of "insider attacks" against NATO forces by Afghan forces and the increased risk of violence and protests due to the "Innocence of Muslims" film, NATO officials announced that joint Afghan-NATO operations have been indefinitely suspended until the violence reaches a "tolerable level."

On Monday at a summit, Iran's nuclear head accused the IAEA of sabotaging one of Iran's newest nuclear plants, and once again denied that uranium was being enriched for warheads.

Elephants who are kept by Hindu temples in the south of India are getting dangerously obese, and efforts are now underway to help them slim down.

A French polling group found that 64 percent of France would vote against switching to the euro currency if the referendum were held today, but also are against moving back to the franc.

Four members of a Palestinian terrorist group have been convicted by a Hamas-led court in Gaza in the 2011 murder of pro-Palestinian activist, Vittorio Arrigoni.

The man suspected to be Sam Bacile, the director behind the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, was taken in for questioning on Saturday by the L.A. police. Meanwhile, protests in Afghanistan and Jakarta turned violent, and Al-Qaeda called last week's bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens a "great event."

Despite a 15,000-person protest against the U.S. Consulate in India-controlled Kashmir over the YouTube video "Innocence of Muslims," most Indian Muslims have remained rather nonplussed by the outbreaks of violence and demonstrations to the west of them.

Heavy rains and poor sanitation in parts of Africa have helped the spread of cholera, ebola, and hepatitis E is several vulnerable populations in South Sudan, DR Congo, and West Africa in general, the U.N. reported.

Mining strikes against Lonmin Platinum continued in South Africa as the government vowed to crack down on the violence.

Two days after the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, anti-"Innocence of Muslim" protests continue in Cairo, Yemen, Sudan, and other parts of the Muslim world, as world leaders appeal for calm.

Another U.S. embassy was attacked on Thursday, this time in Yemen, but despite the slight spread of anti-American protests, several world leaders, not to mention their citizens, have come out in support of the U.S.

Dr. Ephraim Asculai does not see a bombing by Israel or the U.S. as imminent, but that doesn't mean it won't happen. Hawks, however, may be disappointed by what an attack could really accomplish.

A new report from UNICEF, the WHO and the World Bank says that under-five mortality has decreased significantly worldwide, but many countries are still not on track to meet their Millennium Development Goals.

The Middle East is looking increasingly unsteady with the attacks in Libya and the protests in Egypt, which may further deter the U.S. from eventually intervening in Syria.

The death of US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three members of his staff in Benghazi is a tragedy, and they join a long line of diplomats who died representing their nations.

William Wright, now 46, recalls the day eleven years ago when the World Trade Center collapsed on top of him and five of his co-workers.

US embassies all over the world have a history of being attacked, bombed, and otherwise abused by terrorist or insurgent groups.

Egyptian protestors have scaled the walls of the US embassy in Cairo and torn down the American flag in protest to a upcoming movie about the Prophet Mohammed.

Angelina Jolie visited a Syrian refugee camp on the Jordanian border on Tuesday, and listened to the stories of several of the newest arrivals. The UN said there are about 2,000 people crossing the border from Syria every day.

On Monday, Al-Qaeda confirmed that the head of Al-Qaeda's operations in Yemen had been killed. On Tuesday, the Yemeni Defense Minister survived an assassination attempt in the form of a car bomb.