Members fail to agree. ... A specially convened UN session on the escalating Amy Winehouse emergency ended in rancour today, with the United States still insisting that the threat posed by the singer's "ungovernable and erratic behaviour" be ended by regime change....
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday said that the government would no longer negotiate with armed groups until they give up their arms, on-line news network INQUIRER.NET reported. While saying that her...
Japan?s Merchandise Trade Balance saw the surplus shrink further in July, registering at 91.1 billion yen versus 235 billion expected and 138.6 billion in the preceding month. Australia?s New Motor Vehicle Sales contracted...
Buddhist monks join Myanmese activists in a demonstration in front of Myanmar embassy in Bangkok on October 7, 2007. The violence in Darfur and Burma met with widespread international condemnation but scant concrete action....
United Nations peacekeepers and soldiers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been jointly deployed in the eastern provinces of Ituri and Orientale to protect civilians after attacks by the rebel group known as...