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UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigns
U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigned Tuesday after trying for nearly two years to overcome “almost impossible odds” to end ...Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist ambush
An ambush by pro-Russian separatists has killed seven Ukrainian soldiers, the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash ...Italy: Lazio offers €800 reward for home births
The president of Rome\'s Lazio region has signed a decree to pay €800 to mothers who choose to give birth at home, ...African migrant boat sinks off Italian coast
At least 14 people were killed when a ship carrying migrants sank about 100 miles off southern Italy Monday, the state-run ANSA ...Missing Nigeria schoolgirls shown in new Boko Haram video
Boko Haram has released a new video claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted last month, alleging they had ...Pro-Russian separatists declare victory in east Ukraine vote
Organizers of Sunday\'s independence referendum in Ukraine’s eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk say 89 percent of those who cast ballots voted in ...Lithuanian president faces second round in elections
Lithuania\'s presidential election is to go to a second round run-off after President Dalia Grybauskaite fell short of the 50 percent of ...At least 40 die after migrant boat sinks off Libya
At least 40 people died and 51 others were rescued after a boat carrying mostly sub-Saharan African migrants sank off Libya\'s coast ...Deadly suicide bombing strikes southern Yemen
A suicide car bomber killed 12 Yemeni army officers and wounded many others today after targeting a military police building in the ...Militants execute 20 soldiers in north Iraq
Authorities in Iraq have found the bodies of 20 soldiers shot dead after being kidnapped from a northern military base, and a ...




