Politics
Syria enters fifth year of bloody civil conflict
Syria\'s conflict entered its fifth year on Sunday with the regime emboldened by shifting international attention, and a growing humanitarian crisis exacerbated ...Egypt sacks 41 judges for supporting Brotherhood
An Egyptian disciplinary court ordered 41 judges into compulsory retirement on Saturday for supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, judicial sources said, the ...Venezuela holds massive military exercises, citing looming U.S. threat
Soldiers rolled out shoulder-fired missiles, fighter planes and armored trucks Saturday for the first of 10 days of military exercises that the ...Sierra Leone vice president requests asylum at U.S. embassy
Sierra Leone\'s vice president, Samuel Sam-Sumana, said on Saturday that he had requested asylum at the U.S. embassy in Freetown after soldiers ...Angola storm death toll rises to 69, half of them children
The death toll from torrential rains that pounded the Angolan town of Lobito has risen to 69, including 36 children, officials said ...Maldives ex-president Nasheed sentenced to 13 years in prison on terrorism charges
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of terrorism for ordering ...US woman says her boyfriend killed her mother in Indonesia
An American woman charged with premeditated murder in the death of her mother on Indonesia\'s Bali island told a court Wednesday that ...US, IMF new aid to Ukraine, US new sanctions on Russia
The IMF handed Ukraine a $17.5 billion lifeline as the United States agreed to send military aid to bolster its forces against ...Mind your manners, Venezuela tells U.S. official Jacobson
Venezuela\'s top diplomat called a senior U.S. official "petulant" and ill-mannered on Wednesday in response to her contention that sanctions were intended ...Albanian opposition demands Parliament speaker quit
Several thousand Albanian opposition supporters have demonstrated peacefully in central Tirana to demand the resignation of the Parliament speaker, following accusations that ...