Italians will go to the polls to elect their next prime minister in little more than five weeks, in a vote whose importance will resonate far beyond Italy's borders.
France-backed war against rebel forces in Mali continues on Thursday in the northern region of the West African nation as more supporting troops are arriving from the regional bloc.
Over 100 people were killed and about 70,000 others displaced in recent tribal clashes between the Arab Abballa and Beni Hussein tribes in Jabel Amir area of Sudan's North Darfur state, the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said in a statement on Thursday.
An operation launched by the Algerian army to free hostages detained by an armed group in a gas field facility in the southernmost province of Illizi has ended, the official APS news agency reported Thursday, without providing the death toll of the hostages.
Top American diplomat for East Asia said Wednesday there would be "more developments in the days ahead " in Washington's push to punish the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for its rocket launch.
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that President Hugo Chavez was making progress in his recovery from cancer surgery and ensuing respiratory problems in Cuba.
The latest round of military clashes over the weekend between the Malian army and radical Islamist groups have sparked a new wave of displacement and led to a worsening of the humanitarian situation in the West African country, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
Social networking company Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new feature to help search the information shared among hundreds of millions of its users.
U.S. President Barack Obama will unveil a "comprehensive" package of gun violence reduction proposals on Wednesday, including renewing assault weapons ban and tougher background checks, said the White House on Tuesday.
A speeding train derailed and overturned outside of Cairo on Tuesday, killing 19 and injuring over 100 new military recruits.
The United States and Liberia on Tuesday launched a Partnership Dialogue with a view to pursuing high-level diplomatic and economic cooperation between them.
The World Future Energy Summit ( WFES) started in Abu Dhabi Tuesday, along with the first International Water Summit.
Dozens of people were killed or injured Tuesday when two rockets struck the main university of Syrian northern Aleppo city, activists and local media said, as mortar shells rained down districts of the capital Damascus, killing one person and injuring others.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday called for a comprehensive global strategies to fight terrorism, saying that "terrorism will not be defeated by military force or security forces, law enforcement measures, and intelligence operations alone."
Al-Qaida-linked rebels in northern Mali are facing increasing pressure after days of bombardment by French war planes and with more troops to be deployed on the ground to help the government army.
Greek parliament endorsed on Monday evening a bill containing the so-called last "prior actions" requested from international lenders before the release of the next bailout tranche to Athens in the framework of efforts to overcome the debt crisis.
An estimated 30,000 people may have been displaced due to the eruption of fighting between the Mali government and the rebel group, Ansar Dine, in central and northern parts of the country last week, the United Nations said here Monday.
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