Middle East
UN envoy meets Syria foes to salvage talks after bitter start
U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is due to meet Thursday in Geneva with representatives of the Syrian government and opposition, as ...Freedom declining worldwide despite democratization
Pro-democracy group Freedom House says the level of freedom around the world declined last year, with more than half the world\'s population ...US executes Mexican man despite diplomatic pressure
A Mexican national has been executed in Texas, despite appeals from the Mexican government and Secretary of State John Kerry.Gunmen kill 5 policemen in central Egypt
Masked gunmen have attacked a checkpoint south of Cairo, killing five Egyptian policemen and wounding two others.Syria peace talks underway
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says "enough is enough" in Syria, calling the civil war there a breeding ground for extremists and terrorists.Syria accused of torture and 11,000 executions
Syria has systematically tortured and executed 11,000 of its citizens in the three-year war, according to a report by former war crimes ...Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon claims Beirut bombing
An al-Qaeda-linked group has said it carried out a suicide car-bomb attack killing at least four people in a Beirut suburb known ...UN revokes Iran invite to Syria peace talks
The UN secretary-general has withdrawn his invitation to Iran to join this week\'s Syria peace talks, saying he is "deeply disappointed" by ...UN chief invites Iran to Geneva 2, Syria opposition threatens to withdraw
The UN chief has invited Iran, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\'s main regional allies, to participate in the first phase of ...Iran suspends 20% uranium enrichment as historic deal implemented
Iran has started halting uranium enrichment to 20 percent and has begun down-blending uranium enriched to higher levels, the state-run Fars news ...
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