Ryan Villarreal

Iran rejected a proposal to curb uranium enrichment during the second day of nuclear talks with Western powers in Baghdad Thursday.

Thousands of university students in Montreal marked the 100th day of protests against tuition hikes Tuesday, joined by lawyers and labor unions, following the Quebec provincial government's passing of a controversial law last week designed to regulate public assemblies.

Tunisia announced Tuesday that it intends to extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his home country after detaining him for eight months.

NATO signed a $1.7 billion contract with U.S.-based defense contractor Northrup Grumman Sunday for five unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, that will be used by allied countries for a new ground-surveillance system.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has confirmed that Ambassador Ryan Crocker will resign this summer following high-level multilateral talks over bringing the Afghanistan War to an end at the NATO Summit in Chicago.

President Obama and U.S. NATO allies agreed Monday to end all combat missions in Afghanistan and transfer security responsibilities to the country's armed forces next summer after more than a decade of war.

The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago this Sunday will be dominated by discussion of the alliance's transition out of a combat role in Afghanistan to an advisory one, and particularly, who is going to foot the bill amid a global climate of fiscal austerity to ensure it all goes over smoothly.

The Israeli Defense Forces opened fire on Palestinians at a border crossing near northern Gaza Thursday, wounding eight civilians, according to Palestinian officials.

Iran continues to send arms shipments to Syria in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports, according to a draft report by a U.N. panel released Wednesday.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated on Wednesday a truth commission set up to investigate human rights abuses during the country's military regime 27 years after democracy was restored.

A team of U.N. observers was evacuated from a Syrian town after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb Tuesday, following an attack by gunmen on a funeral procession that killed at least 20 people. No U.N. personnel were reported injured, though the team had to spend the night among rebel fighters until they could be safely escorted out of the area.

Thousands of Palestinians throughout the Middle East and the Arab world observed Nakba Day -- literally translated as the Day of Catastrophe -- on Tuesday to commemorate their mass displacement 64 years ago from lands that now constitute the State of Israel.

A shipment of 4,200 boxes of flowers from Bogota arrived by cargo plane in Miami Tuesday, marking the first commercial exchange under the new free trade agreement between the U.S. and Colombia, which went into effect at midnight.

China denied allegations Monday by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, that it was plotting to assassinate him using poison and trained female agents posing as Buddhist pilgrims.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned from Cuba Saturday after completing another round of radiotherapy treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer.

Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development set for Rio de Janeiro next month, has been hailed as a major opportunity for world leaders to address climate change, but its importance threatens to be diminished as key players opt out.

Egypt held the first-ever televised presidential debate in the Arab world on Thursday, featuring frontrunners Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, selected from among a total of 13 candidates.

The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the Legion of Christ religious order over charges of sexual abuse of minors that go back several decades.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has recommended Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin for a seat on the board of the state oil and gas holding company while announcing that Sechin will leave the Cabinet Sunday.

Armed men set fire to a home in a Christian-populated village near the central Nigerian city Jos Wednesday night and then fired upon the residents as they fled to escape the blaze, killing at least seven and wounding another, local authorities said.

Russian authorities claimed Thursday that government intelligence agents foiled a terrorist plot targeting Sochi, host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics, seizing caches of arms and ammunition in the Georgian breakaway territory of Abkhazia earlier this week.

South Sudan accused Northern Sudan of conducting new airstrikes and shelling within its territory in direct violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that aims to end hostilities between the two nations wrought from civil war.

The largest current public works project in the United States, the East Side Access project in New York, which will link the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Station, may not be finished until 2019. Here is a slideshow of the giant project.

Ukraine's imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was moved from her cell to a local hospital Wednesday for treatment of a chronic back condition, after ending a 19-day hunger strike in protest of alleged harsh treatment from prison guards.

As Italy's economy reels from the European debt crisis and politicians face allegations of corruption, comedian Beppe Grillo won a large consensus in local elections with a simple plan: Dump the euro and default on the debt.

Armed militia groups opened fire on the Libyan prime minister's office in the capital Tripoli Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding several others.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called off holding early elections with a surprise announcement Tuesday that he would be forming a new coalition government with major opposition party Kadima.

South Korean customs officials are cracking down on capsules reportedly filled with powdered human flesh from dead infants, aborted fetuses and placental remains that are being smuggled in from China.

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng said Monday from his hospital bed in Beijing that he is confident he will be allowed to travel to the U.S. with his family, despite being denied visits from American officials for several days.