UNITED NATIONS

Presidents of the soon-to-be-independent nations met in Ethiopia to discuss the occupied area of Abyei.

More than 200 foreign migrant workers were discovered on a truck bound for the United States.

The German government said it supports the Benghazi-based Libyan rebel group, the National Transitional Council, as the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people.

The IMF has succumbed to a cyber-attack from what sources believe originated from a member state, escalating the stakes in the latest in a string of cyber-warfare.

The International Monetary Fund is investigating a cyberattack that it recently discovered and has put in place additional security measures, an IMF spokesman said on Saturday.

Amidst warnings from the United Nations that civilian deaths in Afghanistan are skyrocketing, a Taliban bomb killed sixteen members from one family.

Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer said on Saturday his candidacy for the head of the IMF has been submitted.

French Finance Minister and IMF candidate Christine Lagarde said on Saturday tackling sovereign debt troubles would be a priority of the International Monetary Fund if she led the Washington-based rescue lender.

Hardly a few days after Syrian civilians started fleeing the nation to find a safe place in Turkey border, Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to suppress unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.

Mexico's central bank chief Agustin Carstens on Friday said India had not committed to support his candidacy as head of the IMF, as officials in the Asian nation said they would make their choice later in June.

The United Nations and the United States announced a new initiative Countdown to Zero, to eliminate HIV among babies by 2015.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is facing international pressure to end a crackdown on anti-government protestors, is not taking the U.N. chief’s phone calls, the United Nations said on Friday.

In an effort to compensate distraught families, the Canadian government has paid out over $1 million to Afghan civilians. Will the US follow suit?

Israeli police entered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Friday communal prayers-known in Arabic as Jumma -- to disperse a crowd of young Palestinian demonstrators.

Violence continues between North and South Sudan; thousands displaced from their homes

NATO warplanes hit a town west of Libya's capital, the local media reported soon after Western and Arab powers promised more than $1 billion to help rebels fighting to end Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule.

Hillary Clinton has denied reports that she is planning to quit her job next year to become president of the World Bank, a State Department spokesman said.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has accused embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi of ordering the mass rape of Libyan women.

Israeli settlers, still at large, rolled burning tires into a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer in the early morning and scrawled Hebrew-language graffiti across the building's exterior.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to end the Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease by 2020, in a UN summit on Aids in New York.

The United Nations and the White House have condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank yesterday.