Ukraine's president and opposition leaders signed a wide-ranging agreement today aimed at ending a three-month crisis that exploded this week into violence that killed more than 100 people. The agreement, thrashed out during intense overnight ...

United States President Barack Obama has invoked the ire of China after meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House. Having warned the meeting would strain ties, China has now summoned a US diplomat. Barack Obama empfängt den Dalai Lama.

WhatsApp's Ukrainian Jewish founder and CEO Jan Koun became a household name this week. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). Jan Koum's birthday is Monday, but he's already received his big gift. The Ukraine-born CEO and founder of WhatsApp has ...

Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) –- Eurasia Group Senior Analyst Nicholas Consonery and American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks discuss the Dalai Lama's visit with President Obama with Matt Miller and Julie Hyman on Bloomberg Television's “Street ...

Today is Robert Mugabe's 90th birthday. For the last 34 of those years, he's been Zimbabwe's leader, and his life history in intrinsically linked with the country: It's where he's been a guerrilla fighter, a political prisoner, a president and, finally, an international ...

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney celebrates scoring a goal against Cardiff City during their English Premier League soccer match at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, November 24, 2013. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden. LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester ...

Beirut — Fierce clashes raged Friday between Syrian troops and rebels in northeastern Damascus as government warplanes raided insurgent strongholds, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least seven ...

Venezuela has faced years of food shortages, insecurity and economic crisis. Over the past year, since former President Hugo Chávez's death on March 5, the situation has gotten even worse. On the economic front the inflation rate skyrocketed past 50% last ...

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui summoned US charge d'affaires Daniel Kritenbrink to protest President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, state media reported. PHOTOS. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui (AFP/Daniel Barry).

BLACK STARS Soccer Thirteen players of Ghana's Under-17 female team have been denied entry visas to the USA, GHANAsoccernet.com can confirm. The Black Maidens are expected to travel to America to firm up preparations ahead of the 2014 FIFA ...

The past three days have been the most violent in recent Ukrainian history. Over 70 people are reported to have died since violence erupted on Tuesday, including following the reemergence of violence on Wednesday after the collapse of a truce between the ...

Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations mediator for Syria, expressed contrition last week for the failure of the UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva. “I am very, very sorry and I apologise to the Syrian people,” he said. One does not understand why this ...

Africa's oldest head of state, Robert Mugabe, turned 90 years old Friday, amid concerns about his health and the cost of his birthday festivities. The Zimbabwean president left the country on Monday for what his office said was a eye cataract operation in ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks to press in Juba on December 30, 2013, in South Sudan. South Sudanese rebels allied to ex-vice president Riek Machar sought to retake control of a key town on December 30, the army said, as hopes faded that ...

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Nine al-Shabab militants wearing military fatigues and carrying guns and grenades died after attacking the presidential palace with two car bombs on Friday, in an assault the president called a “media spectacular” by a “dying animal.” President Hassan ...

Christina Aguilera may be taking a season off from "The Voice," but she will have wedding plans and baby preparations to fill in her hiatus. The singer is expecting her second child, the first with her fiancee of one week, Matthew Rutler, Us Weekly reports.

Jihadi militants stormed the Somali presidency on Friday in one of the most high-profile attacks on Mogadishu in recent months, underlining insecurity in the capital as the government prepares a renewed offensive against Islamist extremists. Foreign officials ...

The prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is backtracking on key parts of its case, a South Africa news network reports. According to eNCA, documents show that the state's ballistics expert has backed the athlete's claim that he was not wearing his ...

Former U S Congressman, Mel Reynolds, appears at the magistrates courts in Harare, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Reynolds was arrested in Zimbabwe for allegedly possessing pornographic material and violating immigration laws. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi ...