July 23 (Reuters) - Clashes flared in parts of Sudan on the 100th day of the war on Sunday as mediation attempts by regional and international powers failed to find a path out of an increasingly intractable conflict....
Characterized by vast expanses of dunes and sparsely vegetated plains, Western Sahara is a predominantly desert and arid territory. The United Nations categorizes...
After more than a week of public pressure from the U.S. for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday allowed that his government might be open to only “little pauses” in its assault on Hamas. The Israeli leader sought to play down differences with his country’s most vocal...
No one could expect the horrors seen by the Israeli first responders, of about at least 40 babies being taken out on gurneys, some with heads chopped off
The United Nations Security Council has approved a multinational force to assist in Haiti as the Caribbean nation contends with widespread gang violence....
Guayaquil, Ecuador — Some 2,700 soldiers on Tuesday stormed a prison in Ecuador, retaking control of the facility as the death toll from a riot that started over the weekend rose to 31 inmates, authorities said. The latest battle between rival gangs at the overcrowded, violence-hobbled Guayas 1 prison in the port city of...
Joran van der Sloot allegedly struck a deal to plead guilty to involvement in an extortion plot and tell what he knows about the Alabama teenager’s disappearance and death in Aruba in 2005.