China has given a go-ahead for its first major tender of oil and gas blocks in the South China Sea, close on the heels of Beijing establishing a military garrison on a disputed island in the waters.
Senate Republicans are rallying in opposition to a United Nations treaty that would regulate the international arms trade, saying it would undercut Second Amendment rights.
Seventeen months into the Syrian crisis, with numerous worsening instances of blood-chilling violence and massacre, everything still stays the same because the big players are waiting for the right moment to intervene.
It’s been some five centuries since the fall of the Inca Empire, but the civilization’s most familiar icon, Machu Picchu, is as busy as ever. With over one million tourists visiting Peru each year to explore the miraculous pre-Columbian ruins, activists hope to inspire the crowds to help stop other indigenous tribes in Peru’s “Sacred Valley” from suffering a similar fate.
The Basic Law guarantees subsistence-level support for a life in decent conditions as a human right, the court said.
The South China Sea has become Asia's most dangerous flashpoint of conflict. The settlement of the South China Sea dispute will involve compromise and an appreciation of the relative power of the countries involved, says Jeffery Atik, law faculty member at the Loyola law School, Los Angeles.
The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Beijing to honor the ASEAN's code of conduct formed to resolve the territorial tensions in the South China Sea during a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) conference in Cambodia.
North Korea's now got its own version of the loveable Disney pantheon, but the phenomenon is revealing of much more than Americanization across the globe.
The United States gave China and Singapore exemptions from new sanctions targeting Iran's central bank and oil industry, which took effect on Thursday.
The Australian Senate voted down a bill that would have allowed Australia to deport asylum-seekers to neighboring countries for processing as refugees.
Russia said that Syria shooting down a Turkish F4 Phantom jet is not a provocation of war.
The two countries have been at odds since early into the 16 month-old crisis in Syria, but now Turkey is ready to punish Syria for attacking two of its planes.
Regardless of how the NATO meetings turn out, relations between Turkey and Syria (once strong allies) have plunged to a new all-time low.
Russia also has a vested interest in maintaining its decades-old relationship with Syria, which is in large part built on weapons and defense contracts.
Authorities fear that as many as 75 people have drowned, while some 40 people are currently clinging to the upturned hull of the ship as they wait for rescuers.
The Australian government has released new information about the extensive history of physical and sexual abuse of minors in the military dating back more than five decades.
Pillay says such measures raise serious legal issues.
Seventeen diplomats were labeled persona non grata in Syria on Tuesday and asked to leave the embattled country immediately.
A history of the Russia-Syria military relationship, starting with the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
The atrocities committed in the Syrian village of Houla on Friday -- when dozens of men, women, and children were killed, and hundreds more were wounded -- were condemned in the strongest possible terms by the United Nations Security Council on Sunday.
Top officials of the United Nations on Saturday condemned in the strongest possible terms the confirmed killing of dozens of men, women, and children -- and the wounding of hundreds more -- in the village of Houla, outside Homs.
The latest call to arms comes as world powers met with Iran for talks in Baghdad, with the Iranians promising a new and comprehensive package of proposals.
