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Amnesty International accuses Qatar of violating international law.

While thousands of people are seeking to escape war-torn Libya by making a hazardous voyage by boat to Europe, many thousands more are pouring southward into the poverty-stricken desert nations of Niger and Chad.

A next tranche of international aid for Greece should be available in early July following further talks in the next few weeks on the government's economic program, the EU, ECB and IMF said on Friday.

Israel's attendance at French peace talks may decide the future of the Palestinian state

Missiles struck the palace of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah in Sana’a on Friday, wounding the president and three senior officials. National security council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the U.S. is monitoring reports that Saleh was wounded, but could not confirm it.

Ukraine's government has damaged its credibility among investors by setting unrealistic growth targets and needs to resume talks with the IMF, the central bank said in a memo that exposed deep divisions between policymakers.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague awaits Ratko Mladic where he is going to answer charges of genocide in the Bosnia war on Friday.

The United States vows to represent an obstacle in the representation of a Palestinian state at the UN.

Authorities announced hundreds of Libyan refugees dead in cross-Mediterranean escape.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and his loyalists can't seem to have enough of luxury goods and sex slaves a.k.a. Joy Squad to indulge themselves even as the rest of the country suffers in abject poverty.

A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy calls for a broad rethinking of the war on drugs

A 19-member international panel has condemned the US-led War on Drugs campaign as a failure and has recommended major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime.

Greece should complete talks by the end of the week with EU and IMF inspectors on a medium-term budget plan plus a vital next slice of international aid, sources close to the negotiations said on Wednesday.

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Germany expects the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to remain involved jointly in any continued aid program for debt-laden Greece, a finance ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. The comments contradict an earlier report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper which had said it appeared certain the IMF would not contribute its share of the next tranche of aid under Greec...

Greece should complete talks by the end of the week with inspectors from the EU and IMF on a medium-term budget plan plus a vital next slice of international aid, sources close to the negotiations said on Wednesday.

Ratko Mladic has arrived in The Netherlands, where the former fugitive and suspected war criminal will face charges if committing genocide, among other crimes, during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

(Reuters) - Tobacco will kill nearly six million people this year, including 600,000 non-smokers, because governments are not doing enough to persuade people to quit or protect others from second-hand smoke, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Parts of war-torn Libya controlled by Moammar Gaddafi are running out of food and medicine, according to the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the country.

A war crimes court in Serbia has rejected an extradition appeal by the lawyers of Ratko Mladic, meaning the former army general will be transferred to a United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face charges that he committed genocide.

Spain will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders before September, said Alfonso Manuel Portales, Spanish Consul General in east Jerusalem, according to the Jerusalem Post.