Meles Zenawi

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Meles Zenawi, who ruled Ethiopia for 21 years, died in a hospital abroad after weeks of speculation about his health. He was 57....

Clashes between opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad left two people dead in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli....

British government websites have suffered interruptions as hackers backing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched online attacks over his asylum case. Anonymous, a loose network of hackers and Internet freedom activists, claimed credit on Twitter for...

As United States farms and Sahel villages suffer the ravages of drought, world experts are warning that countries around the globe are sorely in need of plans to cope with the problem. The dire effects, they say, are only expected to get worse. Climate...

After the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian officials were at pains Tuesday to reassure the world there would be no major policy deviations or power vacuum. While Meles’s lengthy illness meant he had time to plan a smooth...

Global Focus: The Netherlands pulled out of Afghanistan two years ago. Canada brought home its contingent last year. France, the fifth-largest contributor of troops to the International Security Assistance Force, will exit the war by the end of this year....

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China intensified its economic courting of Africa as Premier Hu Jintao pledged $20 billion in loans to countries on the continent over the next three years....

When the leaders of the globe's biggest economies — the G8 — meet at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains this weekend, they will have a plate full of problems: banking and liquidity and bonds and loan guarantees and such. Somewhere on...