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The UN appealed Tuesday for the last $14 million needed to try and prevent a stricken oil tanker from triggering...

Ukraine's government will ask the UN's cultural watchdog to add the historic port of Odessa to its World Heritage List...

Six Indonesian soldiers have been arrested after being accused of killing four indigenous Papuans and mutilating their bodies last week,...

Up to 200,000 people are stranded in remote Pakistan valleys after the unrelenting floods of the past week -- with...

China's ruling Communist Party will begin its 20th Party Congress on October 16, state media reported Tuesday, a landmark meeting...

Diplomats paid tribute to departing UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday, despite her failure to release a long-promised report...

An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced the former Gaza head of a major US-based aid agency to 12 years in...

Roland Mesnier, the French-born longtime pastry chef at the White House whose whimsical confections served five American presidents, has died...

Angolans and world leaders gathered on Sunday for the state funeral of former strongman president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, whose...

Dutch police on Sunday said six people were killed and seven other people hurt after a truck ran off the...