Hillary Clinton has denied reports that she is planning to quit her job next year to become president of the World Bank, a State Department spokesman said.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has accused embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi of ordering the mass rape of Libyan women.
Israeli settlers, still at large, rolled burning tires into a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer in the early morning and scrawled Hebrew-language graffiti across the building's exterior.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to end the Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease by 2020, in a UN summit on Aids in New York.
The United Nations and the White House have condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank yesterday.
The Libyan woman who announced to international media that she was gang-raped by Gaddafi troupes has been relocated to Romanian UN headquarters.
The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that the U.S. government is secretly planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear sites in order to further de-stabilize that country.
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay was deeply troubled by Israel's attack on Syrian protesters at their shared border Sunday, she said in a press conference today.
There is renewed evidence that Iran is providing weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan – weapons that are used to kill both Afghan and foreign troops in the country.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday that Indian officials had positive views on her credentials as she contests for the head of the International Monetary Fund , and that she hoped to get a view on China's position later this week.
The IMF is open to delaying Greece's repayment of its international bailout deal but a major restructuring of its debt would create untold problems in the euro zone, an IMF official said on Tuesday.
Former South Korean Ban Ki-moon has asked for the support of UN Security Council for his candidacy for a second five-year term as U.N. secretary-general.
About 18 were killed when Israeli troops fired at Palestinian demonstrators in Syria on Sunday in what Israel called a challenge to its sovereignty, a Syrian state-run media reported.
A criminal court in Egypt has sentenced former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali to thirty years in prison for graft and corruption.
Amnesty International accuses Qatar of violating international law.
While thousands of people are seeking to escape war-torn Libya by making a hazardous voyage by boat to Europe, many thousands more are pouring southward into the poverty-stricken desert nations of Niger and Chad.
A next tranche of international aid for Greece should be available in early July following further talks in the next few weeks on the government's economic program, the EU, ECB and IMF said on Friday.
Israel's attendance at French peace talks may decide the future of the Palestinian state
Missiles struck the palace of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah in Sana’a on Friday, wounding the president and three senior officials. National security council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the U.S. is monitoring reports that Saleh was wounded, but could not confirm it.
Ukraine's government has damaged its credibility among investors by setting unrealistic growth targets and needs to resume talks with the IMF, the central bank said in a memo that exposed deep divisions between policymakers.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague awaits Ratko Mladic where he is going to answer charges of genocide in the Bosnia war on Friday.
The United States vows to represent an obstacle in the representation of a Palestinian state at the UN.
