Major powers gave Iran two weeks to answer calls to rein in its nuclear programme on Saturday or face tougher sanctions after talks ended in stalemate despite unprecedented US participation
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met the commander of US troops in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday to talk about the war he says is not getting enough attention from the Bush administration
Zimbabwes main opposition party could sign an agreement as early as Monday to begin substantive talks with President Robert Mugabes party on ending a political impasse that has worsened the countrys severe economic crisis opposition officials said on Saturday
A police officer who was cleared of wrongdoing after CCTV cameras showed him punching a woman he was trying to arrest has died after being found on a Welsh mountainside
Irelands Labour Party has turned down a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy next week to resolve deadlock over the EU reform treaty saying the format proposed was pointless and a trifle arrogant
The Arab League criticised the International Criminal Courts prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudans president on genocide charges saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur
Iraqs main Sunni Arab bloc rejoined the Shiiteled government on Saturday in a breakthrough for national reconciliation after parliament approved its candidates for several vacant ministerial posts
The leader of South Africas ruling party said former President Nelson Mandela was the glue holding the country together giving voice to longheld fears about the future of the fledgling democracy without him
Two people were killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between members of the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon camp officials said
Ten members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party PKK were killed in clashes with Turkish military forces in southeastern Turkey late on Friday security sources said on Saturday