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Ahmad Fawzi said the small advance team of UN monitors was unable to stop the bloodshed between opposition forces and government troops.

A senior North Korean military officer has claimed that Pyongyang is equipped with powerful modern weapons capable of defeating the US. This declaration coincides with speculation that the reclusive Asian nation may be planning to conduct a nuclear test, following its failed rocket launch on April 13.

Syrian soldiers and security forces are harassing and even killing people who were seen talking to UN truce mediators in the country.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the legalization of 3 West Bank outposts, angering Palestinians seeking to put an end to Israeli settlements.

The International Criminal Court may investigate possible war crimes -- including rape and the conscription of child soldiers -- in Mali committed since political violence erupted there in January.

The unnamed source said the North had almost completed preparations for the nuclear test, which if it went ahead would draw strong international condemnation and further isolate the impoverished state from its sole major ally, China.

In a newspaper interview published on Tuesday, al-Marzouki urged Assad's Russian, Chinese and Iranian allies to abandon support for the beleaguered dictator and hand over to his deputy.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Tuesday that Sudan has declared war on his country.

Sudanese war planes bombed a market in the capital of South Sudan's oil-producing Unity State Monday, residents and officials said, an attack the southern army called a declaration of war.

On Monday, the state-run North Korean news agency broadcast a military statement threatening to reduce the rat-like groups of South Korea to ashes in three or four minutes...

China's senior most diplomat has showered praise on North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-Un, despite tensions created by Pyongyang's failed rocket launch last week, which the international community had condemned.

Syrian soldiers stormed a town east of Damascus on Sunday and rebels bombed a military convoy in the north of the country as international mediator Kofi Annan urged both sides to work with an expanded team of U.N. ceasefire monitors.

The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

Earth Day is this Sunday, and audiences in more than 160 countries across the globe will gather to screen director Kyle Ruddick's new documentary, One Day on Earth, which was shot in every country of the world on the same day.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi. Along with Russia, China is one of the few countries that has yet to abandon the Syrian government.

World leaders sharpened their condemnations of the bloodshed in Syria on Thursday, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the United Nations to adopt a resolution similar to the one that enabled the NATO operation in Libya.

China has provided some assistance to North Korea's missile program, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, a week after the hermit state's failed rocket launch triggered international condemnation.

South Korea, Japan, the United Nations and the U.S. believe that North Korea intends to develop ballistic missile tests and have roundly condemned Pyongyang’s program.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir ordered his forces to withdraw from the town of Heglig on Friday, even though he still believes the oil field is property of South Sudan.

Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire.

The Arab League called an emergency meeting on Thursday over the quickly escalating violence between Sudan and South Sudan.