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Pope Francis arrives in Bethlehem Sunday to begin the most sensitive part of his three-day Middle East tour aimed at forging regional peace and easing an age-old rift within Christianity. After beginning his trip in Jordan on Saturday with an urgent…

Luke Shaw cannot drive and watched the last World Cup on television as a 14-year-old, but now he is being thrust into football’s fast lane on the global stage. The precociously talented Shaw won a battle with his boyhood idol Ashley Cole for a left…

19 May 2014 – Deeply concerned by the devastating floods in the Balkans – days of rainfall have reportedly submerged…

16 May 2014 – A United Nations report released today documents an “alarming” deterioration of the human rights situation in…

16 May 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his solidarity with the people of Turkey following the…

15 May 2014 – Ahead of the ‘hotly contested’ elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a senior United Nations official today…

14 May 2014 – This August, Major General Kristin Lund will become the first female commander of a United Nations…

Ukraine was preparing Saturday for a presidential election seen as crucial to its very survival after months of turmoil that has driven the country to the brink of civil war. Sunday’s vote comes with tensions running high after a bloody upsurge in fighting…

To the Editor: My heart goes out to those parents of the schoolgirls in Nigeria who, through no fault of their own, are being used to extort money for the terrorist cause in that country. The country’s military has refused to get involved  in finding…

At least five people were killed in fighting early Friday between pro-Russian militiamen and Ukrainian forces near the eastern city of Donetsk, an AFP photographer said. The photographer said he saw five bodies near the village of Karlivka northwest…

Honda Motor said Friday it has cut production in its Thai plant by 40 percent, blaming a drop in demand, the day after the country’s army chief seized power in a military coup. “We have cut the volume of production to 60 percent of the plant’s annual…

Disgraced British fashion designer John Galliano, little-seen since being sacked by Dior in 2011 for making drunken racist tirades, reappeared in Moscow Thursday as creative director of a Russian cosmetics chain. The L’Etoile chain, which has some 850…

Scandal-hit Barclays has been fined more than £26 million pounds after a former trader at the bank was accused of trying to manipulate the price of gold, Britain’s financial regulator said on Friday. The Financial Conduct Authority said in a statement…

Thousands of Brazilians backing a movement to help homeless workers rallied in Sao Paulo to protest a lack of housing, shoddy public services and huge spending on the World Cup. Police put attendance at 15,000 while organizers said it was more than…

North Korea said Friday it will send athletes to this year’s Asian Games in South Korea, the first time it has participated in a major sporting event there for more than a decade and despite simmering tensions between the neighbours. “The Olympic Committee…

UKIP dealt a major blow to mainstream parties Friday with initial results of local elections in England showing strong gains for the eurosceptic party. Nigel Farage predicted his party could chalk up some 200 council seats by the end of the day after…

22 May 2014 – Despite repeated appeals by senior United Nations officials for accountability for crimes being committed in Syria,…

21 May 2014 – UN human rights experts today appealed to Iranian authorities to halt the scheduled execution of two…

21 May 2014 – The United Nations and Iran have agreed on additional practical measures aimed at allaying concerns about…

21 May 2014 – The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the “flagrant disregard” for international human rights and…