MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two members of the international quartet of Middle East mediators suggested on Friday that stalled indirect peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians may be unblocked in coming days. Speaking after a meeting in Moscow of the group -- comprising the United States, European ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - At least 200 people were killed when a trench collapsed at an unofficial gold mine in Sierra Leone, the West African country's Ministry of Mineral Resources said on Friday. The accident occurred in the Bo district in the south of the country, about 180 miles from the capital, ...

Norwegian Kai Eide, who stepped down this month, said talks with the Taliban dried up several weeks ago after more than a dozen Taliban were captured in joint U.S.-Pakistan operations. The most prominent Afghan Taliban leader picked up in Pakistan was top military strategist Mullah Abdul Ghani ...

Putin's deputy chief of staff, Yuri Ushakov, was quoted as saying that Putin had affirmed that a sanctions resolution "was possible," Itar-Tass news agency reported. "Vladimir Vladimirovich gave his appraisal of the situation in Iran and underlined that such a situation (involving ...

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A Dominican Republic man who acted as legal adviser to a group of U.S. missionaries held for several weeks in Haiti on child kidnapping charges has been arrested in Santo Domingo, local police said on Friday. Jorge Puello Torres, wanted by El Salvador as a suspect in a ...

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Police running scared from drug gangs in one of Mexico's deadliest cities are using bizarre rituals involving animal sacrifice and spirit tattoos to seek protection from raging violence on the U.S. border. In secret meetings that draw on elements of Haitian Voodoo, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British anti-radicalization campaign called Prevent is a pressing priority in the European country experts see as the most at risk from al Qaeda attack. But to listen to its critics, the project, aimed mainly at Muslim communities, might more accurately be named Provoke.

The number of people living in shantytowns increased by 55 million to 827.6 million as population growth and migration from the countryside outstripped the effect of upward mobility in cities, the U.N.'s biennial report on cities found. "The situation has improved over 10 years, but alas over ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Armed rebel groups in Somalia are using the Internet for fundraising and recruitment, and they achieve better results through the Web than they do on the ground, a United Nations report said. The report by the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia also highlighted how the rebels use ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Friday defended his finance minister from attacks from the ruling party's youth wing and called for action to be taken against ANC members who continue to argue publicly. His comments, in a letter published on the party's website, are ...