After a long period of instability and conflict, we now have ahead of us an opportunity for genuine peace and security, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Thursday.
The question is whether, in light of growing human rights problems from China and Russia to the Middle East and North Africa, the United States is doing enough to factor human rights into its foreign policy.
With hopes of changing Moscow's stance on Damascus, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Russia's relationship with Syria is bringing the country toward civil war.
This Friday marks the debut of the controversial documentary U.N. ME. The film investigates the hidden practices of the United Nations and argues that the 60-year-old organization isn't living up to its principles.
Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen said in Washington on Wednesday that he will travel to Moscow in the very near future.
The Middle East situation is purely theoretical to the other nations on our planet, but not to Israeli Jews.
Only two of the 35 wealthiest countries have rates of relative childhood poverty above 20 percent. The United States shares the dubious honor with a former Communist dictatorship
Sudan withdrew its troops from Abyei, the disputed, oil-rich region on the border with South Sudan, handing it over United Nations peacekeepers on Tuesday.
Abortion has been legal in Turkey since 1983 (during the first ten weeks of pregnancy) and has not played any significant role in the nation?s political debates, making Erdogan?s sudden statements somewhat puzzling.
A boatload of Russian arms will arrive in Syria next weekend, a Western source told the Al Arabia television station on Tuesday.
Representatives of Sudan and South Sudan met on Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to begin a new round of peace talks mediated by the African Union.
Turkey?s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former ally of Assad, also expressed his outrage over the killings.
The atrocities committed in the Syrian village of Houla on Friday -- when dozens of men, women, and children were killed, and hundreds more were wounded -- were condemned in the strongest possible terms by the United Nations Security Council on Sunday.
The U.N. Security Council met Sunday afternoon to discuss Friday's massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, which the United Nations has blamed on the Syrian government but Damascus and Moscow suggested was due to a rebel attack.
The U.N. Security Council is to meet Sunday afternoon to discuss the Houla massacre in Syria, diplomats said.
Top officials of the United Nations on Saturday condemned in the strongest possible terms the confirmed killing of dozens of men, women, and children -- and the wounding of hundreds more -- in the village of Houla, outside Homs.
The apparent results of Egypt's first round of presidential-election voting are troubling for the country's women. Likely runoff contestants are Mohammed Morsi, who is the preferred candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood' Freedom and Justice Party, and Ahmed Shafiq, who served as air-force commander under deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon still believes Kofi Annan is the best hope of ending violence in Syria, although he admitted that at this time, we don't have any plan B.
The Obama Administration is considered a secure way to send weapons to rebels fighting President Assad in Syria.
The common currency was punished overnight as sentiment regarding Greece turned from bad to worse.
On Tuesday, Cuba?s official Communist Party newspaper Granma finally gave an official estimate of the number of people currently incarcerated in the nation?s jails.
As soils, freshwater, oceans, forests and biodiversity are being rapidly degraded and climate change puts more pressure on the resources, it is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food.
