PARIS — Expectations that an important war crimes trial would conclude this week were upended on Tuesday when Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia, and his defense lawyers boycotted the final stage of the proceedings, contending that the...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Fresh off a peacekeeping trip to the Korean peninsula, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson warned violence between North and South Korea could flare anew if the South continues its military drills and the North abandons its...

“My fellow ministers will accept [the freeze and incentives package],” says Netanyahu; talks continue with Washington on language. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Thursday night that he will win security cabinet...

The main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, said Tuesday it kidnapped seven local workers from an Exxon Mobil Corp. offshore rig and promised new violence in a region vital to...

(Reuters) - The NATO summit in Lisbon this weekend will mark a turning point in the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan as it lays out a roadmap to end combat operations by 2014, the top U.S. envoy to the region said on Monday.

Crowds hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest over the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis

By JONATHAN WEISMAN and DAMIAN PALETTA SEOUL—President Barack Obama headed toward the close of the Group of 20 summit, weakened by an anemic economic recovery and an election drubbing that have left world leaders questioning U.S. authority.

President Barack Obama pressed his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on allowing faster currency appreciation to help narrow trade imbalances that threaten to trigger protectionism and imperil the global economic recovery.

President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global poverty and said his administration would focus its help to the poor on promoting economic growth and fighting corruption. Obama told a special U.N. summit that for too long...

An 11-year-old girl helping her mother baby-sit has been charged with murdering a 2-year-old, who suffered blunt-force trauma to the head, torso and buttocks, Georgia authorities say. Police in Sandy Springs, just north of Atlanta, are holding the...