Ryan Villarreal

The Tunisian government declared an overnight curfew in various parts of the country, including the capital, following several attacks that have been attributed to an Islamist sect.

Sectarian violence has flared in western Myanmar (formerly Burma) between Muslims and Buddhists, following the brutal rape and murder of a young woman last month.

French President Francois Hollande said he would support a U.N. intervention in Mali over concerns that political instability in the country will turn it into a hotbed for terrorist activity.

Charges of anti-Semitism have been leveled against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is his re-election campaign over state media content that brands opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski as a Zionist.

A statement from the wife of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been released online, praising the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings that have toppled authoritarian governments throughout North Africa and the Middle East in the past year and a half.

A new documentary about Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has sparked controversy among Chileans who have haunting memories of the military regime years when many people, targeted as political dissidents, were imprisoned, tortured, executed or disappeared.

Australia will lift its remaining financial sanctions and travel restrictions against Myanmar, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced Thursday, citing the southeast Asian country's progress toward democratic reform following decades of military rule.

African leaders considered a request for U.N. intervention in politically unstable Mali during a meeting Thursday in the Ivory Coast.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will officially register Monday to participate in the October elections amid growing speculation surrounding his health as he continues to battle cancer.

Israel plans to build hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements. The announcement came as an effort foundered Wednesday in parliament to skirt an Israeli Supreme Court ruling ordering the demolition of apartment buildings in a settlement unauthorized by the state.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law climate change legislation that will bind the country to significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Only Great Britain has done the same

Iran has accused the U.N. nuclear inspectors of spying for Western powers and said it would continue to enrich uranium as negotiations in Moscow approach with the aim of scaling back Teheran's nuclear energy program.

The Ukrainian parliament has passed a controversial bill that would make Russian more prominent, a proposal which has been met with vehement opposition from both politicians and ordinary citizens who feel Ukraine's national identity is being threatened.

The U.S. has cancelled millions of dollars in funding for a project to develop a Pakistani version of the popular American children's educational television program, following allegations of corruption against the local puppet theater partnering on project.

Al-Qaida's second-in-command was reportedly at the site of a drone strike in northwestern Pakistan, but his death has not yet been confirmed, a U.S. official announced Tuesday.

For most Chinese nationals under 30, the Tiananmen Square Massacre does not even register on their timeline of contemporary historical events.

Gunfire broke out between NATO troops and Serbian anti-separatists in Kosovo Friday, resulting in several injuries but no fatalities.

The Venezuelan government passed a new gun law that prohibits the commercial sale of firearms and ammunition, moving the country closer to President Hugo Chavez and his administration's goal of disarming all civilians as crime rates continue to rise.

A German engineer claimed to be held by al-Qaida militants was stabbed to death Thursday in the midst of a Nigerian military raid on a home in the northern city of Kano.

The Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab has made another threat to target buildings in Nairobi, Kenya, following a bomb attack Monday in the city's downtown.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that Israel should consider unilateral action if peace talks with the Palestinians prove to be impossible, a statement widely interpreted as a call for his country to withdraw from the West Bank.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is reported to have a terminal form a cancer, according to a report from veteran journalist Dan Rather, who cited an unidentified source.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer for more than a year now. He has been in power since 1999 and intends to run for re-election in October, but questions remain about whether his health will hold up and who could replace him in the event it does not.

The jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama Bin Laden was handed a 33-year prison sentence last week for conspiring with Islamic militants, not for assisting American agents according to a court document.

The U.S. State Department is under pressure from members of congress and the Justice Department to designate the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram, based in northern Nigeria, a foreign terrorist organization. Nigeria, and American scholars, disagree.

A blast that ripped through a building in downtown Nairobi Monday, injuring 33 people, was caused by an improvised explosive device, Kenyan authorities said Tuesday.

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) arrested two men Monday evening in connection with an alleged terror plot, who have suspected links to the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency has found evidence of uranium enriched up to levels closer to the threshold needed for developing nuclear warheads at an underground Iranian facility.

Top Chinese and Israeli military officials met in Beijing earlier this week, signaling increased cooperation between the two nations, that formerly regarded each other tepidly.