PTI AP Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Middle East peace negotiations in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.

The Mexican army says it has killed 27 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a clash near the US border. The army said a patrol came under fire as it approached an apparent training camp that had been spotted during an aerial search.

Despite media reports of corruption at Kabul Bank, Afghan officials insist that it is not in danger of collapse. By Andrew Higgins, David Nakamura and Ernesto Londoño DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's ...

THE Coalition has claimed a Labor/Green alliance would further weaken border protection, as another asylum-seeker boat was intercepted by the navy.

By AP , MANILA, Philippines (AP) - China is angry after a violent hostage drama in the Philippines killed eight tourists from Hong Kong, and the Southeast Asian nation can do little to soothe the powerhouse, as a raft of visitor cancellations has hit ...

North Korea is preparing its biggest political gathering in 30 years, drawing parallels with the 1980 summit that ensured Kim Jong Il's succession amid speculation he will transfer power to his youngest son.

I have no wish to intervene in Labour's leadership election, and it would be inappropriate for me to do so. But in the light of the current discussion of Gordon Brown prompted by Tony Blair's memoirs (Brown holds fire as old rival lays bare tortured ...

The government of Mozambique says price rises which have led to riots in the capital Maputo are "irreversible". The comments came after an emergency cabinet meeting on the two days of unrest in which seven people have died.

The prime minister says he fully supports Foreign Secretary William Hague, who hired a young man as a top advisor and has denied an improper relationship with him.

Finance for flood-ravaged nation from IMF reaches $450m as aid workers warn of "second wave of death". The International Monetary Fund will provide Pakistan with about $450 million in emergency aid this month to help it cope with devastating floods.

Russia's government has forecast that this year's harvest may be slashed by as much as 38 percent as the worst drought in at least half a century parched crops.

A policeman removes his motorcycle from the scene as angry protesters burn a vehicle during reaction over after bomb attack during a Shi'ite Muslim procession in Lahore September 1, 2010.

Germany's central bank has decided to ask the country's president to dismiss one of its board members, Thilo Sarrazin, over comments he made about immigration, Muslims and Jews.

Authors of a new study on American Jews argue that the community is more attached to Israel than many pundits assume. Based on a survey conducted in the aftermath of the flotilla incident, the study finds "overall stability in American ...

SEOUL, South Korea - Typhoon Kompasu struck South Korea on Thursday, killing at least four people and toppling trees, streetlights and scaffolding in what was called the strongest storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years.

Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Bihar have said they have killed one of four policemen they have been been holding hostage. The rebels had told the state authorities they would start killing the policemen from Thursday unless eight Maoist ...

By Go Onomitsu - Fri Sep 03 00:19:35 GMT 2010 Ichiro Ozawa, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's opponent for party leadership, said he would accept the ruling of a civil judicial panel considering whether he should be indicted for violating political ...

A top United Nations official, Lynn Pascoe, the UN under-secretary-general for political affairs, says he is "hopeful" for Somalia, where the government is trying to fight off an offensive by Islamist militants.

BEIJING, China - Thousands of coal trucks were backed up for miles on a northern China highway Friday, the latest in a series of monster jams that have plagued the overloaded road since construction began on a parallel route earlier this summer.

TORONTO - A fuel tanker carrying supplies for Arctic communities has run aground in the Northwest Passage but no diesel is leaking, the Canadian Coast Guard said Thursday.