A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in an outdoor market Saturday, killing at least 23 people and wounding at least 86 others in a village of Shiite ethnic Turkomen north of Baghdad, police said.
Russia`s top prosecutor`s office said Friday British authorities` refusal to open a criminal case against fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky over his calls to overthrow President Vladimir Putin was unjustified.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) in cooperation with the UN Development Program starte4d implementing a new project to combat human trafficking.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that NATO`s further expansion eastward was reminiscent of the Cold War standoff between the Soviet Union and the West.
Britain`s reputation as a world leader for university education could be lost within 10 years, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge warned yesterday.
Russia and Venezuela are preparing a contract for the delivery of Russian-made diesel submarines to the Latin American country, the head of Russia`s state-run arms exporter said Thursday.
The first night after he was snatched in Gaza nearly four months ago, BBC reporter Alan Johnston feared he was about to die. The kidnappers` masked leader appeared in the doorway, and moments later the prisoner was handcuffed, hooded and taken outside.
Russia will demonstrate patience in relations with the EU, but will not make concessions on matters of key importance, the foreign minister said in a newspaper Tuesday.
NATO has no objections to discussing setting up an information exchange between Brussels and Moscow on missile launches in the framework of the Russia-NATO Council, a source in NATO headquarters said Tuesday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il later on Tuesday, a ministry spokesman said, as uncertainty continued over when Pyongyang may shut its nuclear reactor.
Robert Zoellick started work Monday as the new president of the World Bank after a pay-and-promotion scandal toppled its last chief, Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz.
The US and Russian presidents dressed down and went fishing at informal talks designed to diminish the heat on months of rancor reminiscent of the Cold War, but the tensions still simmer.
Russia`s president proposed to his U.S. counterpart Monday exchanging information on missile launches and using a radar being built in southern Russia for early missile warnings.
Russia hopes to complete bilateral talks on its accession to the World Trade Organization with Vietnam next week, a Russian economics ministry official said Friday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Okinawa on Saturday to commemorate a bloody World War Two battle, the day after local lawmakers blasted official plans to alter school textbook accounts of wartime suicides.
Iran`s Interior Ministry dismissed Friday a non-official Iranian media report that quoted the ministry`s chief as saying the country has 100 kg of enriched uranium, official state news agency IRNA said.
Leaders of the European Union reached an agreement early Saturday on the draft of a new EU Constitution after breaking a deadlock in talks with Poland.
Moscow hopes to reach an agreement on missile defense with the U.S., Russia`s foreign minister said Friday in an interview with TV network Vesti 24.
Russia refused to budge on its opposition to a new Western-backed draft U.N. resolution paving the way for Kosovo independence as the Security Council discussed the document for the first time on Friday.
The United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its atomic arms development within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
Baku▓s statements about renewal of military action in Nagorno Karabakh are nothing but a manifestation of pseudo-patriotism, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Tigran Torosyan announced at a news conference today.
European Union leaders headed for a showdown on Thursday over efforts to overhaul the bloc`s creaking institutions, but chances of agreement appeared to be rising after chief critic Poland softened its tone.
A suicide truck bomber struck the city hall in a predominantly Sunni area in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 70, an Iraqi commander said.
A giant manta ray baby that was believed to be the first born in captivity died Thursday after being abused by its father, Japanese keepers said.
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile`s southern Andes has disappeared - and scientists want to know why.