HARARE - A top UN official on Wednesday praised great progress in easing Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis, but urged donors to continue supporting the country's recovery from a decade of economic freefall. It has been refreshing to see great progr
TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian nuclear official says the purpose of a U.N. warning station set up in Turkmenistan near the border with Iran is espionage. The U.N. announced last week the new nuclear warning station — one of dozens such observator
YANGON, Myanmar - Officials say detained Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was escorted from her home into unannounced talks with a junta official for the first time in two months. Officials say the 45-minute meeting took plac
GENEVA - Unemployment in Switzerland soared to a five-year high of 4.2 percent in November, official data showed Wednesday. The number of people registered as jobless reached 163,950, up 5,812 from October, when the unemployment rate was at 4.0 per
MOSCOW - Russia and the United States expect to strike a new nuclear arms treaty this month, a senior Kremlin aide told Russian news agencies Tuesday. The START I treaty signed in 1991 expired Friday. It obliged each country to cut its nuclear warhe
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed and killed Honduras' top anti-drug official in the capital Tuesday, just two months before he planned to retire and move to Canada. Former army Gen. Julian Aristides Gonzalez, director of the Of
JERUSALEM - Israel's justice minister said religious law must become binding in Israel, causing a stir Tuesday that reflects the divide between the secular and religious communities in the Jewish state. Yaakov Neeman, an observant Jew, told a rabbin
CAIRO Until a few weeks ago, state media described Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and just-retired head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as a credit to his country. He was seen as a man who had dared speak tru
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