Politics
Saudi King Abdullah dies, new ruler is Salman
Saudi Arabia\'s King Abdullah died early on Friday and his brother Salman became king, the royal court in the world\'s ...Ukraine cedes airport on one of bloodiest days of war
Ukrainian forces on Thursday ceded a long-disputed airport to Russian-backed rebels as an upsurge in clashes killed nearly 50 people ...Yemen president quits, throwing country deeper into chaos
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi resigned on Thursday, days after Houthi rebels battled their way into his presidential palace, plunging ...Nepal misses deadline for Constitution
Nepal\'s lawmakers failed to agree on a new constitution Thursday as a midnight deadline expired, deepening public frustration over the ...Ukraine leader says 9000 Russian troops backing rebels
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Wednesday of sending 9,000 troops to back separatist rebels in the east of ...Libyan rival parliament suspends U.N.-sponsored peace talks
A parliament set up in Libya to rival the elected assembly has suspended U.N.-sponsored peace talks because of what it ...FULL TEXT: President Obama delivers State of the Union Address
US President Barack Obama delivered his 2015 State of the Union Address to ...Cuba wants off U.S. terrorism list before restoring normal ties
Cuba will tell the United States in face-to-face talks this week it wants to be removed from the U.S. list ...Ukrainian troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
Ukrainian troops recaptured almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine they had lost to separatists in recent weeks, as ...French, foreign leaders walk arm-in-arm as millions protest Paris attacks
World leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen linked arms to lead more than a million French citizens through Paris in ...