Pakistan's army says its forces have killed more than 140 Taliban militants during the last 24 hours in Swat valley. Several troops have also been reported killed. Thousands of people continue to flee the clashes, joining hundreds of thousands of Pak...
Indonesia's Electoral Commission has declared the Democrat Party of incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the winner of last month's parliamentary polls. The widely predicted results places President Yudhoyono's party well ahead of its nearest...
U.S. officials are stressing the threat posed to South Asia by Taliban militants, as they assess the results of the recent U.S.-Afghan-Pakistani summit in Washington. President Barack Obama met at the White House last Wednesday with Afghan President...
The U.N. Children's Fund says the lives of a growing number of children in the Horn of Africa are threatened by chronic food insecurity, conflict and political instability. 联合国儿童基金会说，非洲之角越来越多的儿童生命受到长期...
UN aid agencies are expanding and speeding up their relief operations to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in Pakistan's northwest province. A UNHCR charter plane carrying 120 tons of relief supplies for people fleeing the fightin...
The conflict between Pakistani forces and Taliban fighters in the North-West Frontier Province topped the agenda as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at 10 Downing Street. 英国首相布朗和巴基...
The World Health Organization reports it has received nearly 6,500 officially confirmed cases of swine influenza A-H1N1 - including 65 deaths - from 33 countries. While this is serious, WHO says the disease has not yet become a pandemic. 世界卫生组...
Italy is cracking down on illegal immigration and under an agreement with Libya has begun sending boatloads of migrants back to Africa. Italy's lower house of parliament has approved a new security bill by that redefines illegal immigration as a crim...
An industrial venture once celebrated as a symbol of reconciliation between the two Koreas may be endangered by a sharpening dispute between the two sides. North Korea is essentially tearing up the agreements that make the zone run. 南北韩之间激烈...
Pope Benedict XVI has wrapped up his visit to the Holy Land with a message of hope for peace. The pope left Tel Aviv Friday following a five-day journey to Israel and the Palestinian territories in which he pledged support for Palestinian statehood,...
International pressure for the release of Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from prison is mounting. But Burma's pro-democracy activists and opposition politicians say the international response, including from the United Nations, needs to...
A group of private Russian citizens is seeking to establish a network of corruption victims as a means of advancing President Dmitri Medvedev's plans to battle the country's oppressive bureaucracy and courts. Participants at an organizational meeting...
U.S. President Barack Obama says agreement on energy legislation and progress on health care reform show that Washington is beginning to change. 美国总统奥巴马说，在能源立法上达成的一致意见以及在卫生保健体制改革方面取...
In India, the ruling Congress Party got down to the job of choosing partners and forming a new government, a day after it beat forecasts to win a better-than-expected victory in general elections. The Congress Party-led alliance has won 261 seats in...
Sri Lanka's rebels have announced they would be laying down their guns to prevent what they call further unnecessary slaughter of Tamil civilians by government troops. The island nation's military says it has defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E...
