Sudan must stop trying to “scale back” a hybrid international force for Darfur, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region.

Saddam Hussein’s cousin and two other former regime officials were convicted Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang for the brutal crackdown that killed up to 180,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas two decades ago.

Five UN peacekeepers were killed by a car bomb in southern Lebanon on Sunday, further rattling security as another 11 people died in fighting with Islamists in the north.

Israel agreed on Sunday to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ new government, a move Hamas dismissed as “bribery” to fuel tensions with Islamists controlling Gaza.

King Abdullah on Sunday called for a “clear timeline” for resuming Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, a Royal Court statement said.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – Arab Islamic radicals who fled Afghanistan in the U.S.-led invasion are coming back, eager to support suicide bombers in their increasingly frequent and effective attacks on Western and Afghan forces.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban fighters attack U.S. or NATO forces in populated areas, then retreat to civilian homes. Western forces respond with massive firepower or an airstrike.

Preşedintele Traian Băsescu se întâlneşte astăzi, la Zagreb, cu liderul rus Vladimir Putin. În capitala Croaţiei se desfăşoară Summit-ul pe probleme energetice din Europa de Sud-Est, a cărui principală temă este dependenţa statelor din regiune faţă de gazul natural rusesc.

31 de români din Fâşia Gaza, alungaÅ£i de conflictul armat de acolo, s-au întors în Å£ară în această dimineaţă. Este vorba de 11 femei, 19 copii ÅŸi un bărbat. După un drum de 18 ore, cetăţenii români evacuaÅ£i din Făşia Gaza au ajuns pe Aeroportul InternaÅ£ional Henri Coandă cu o …

One of the difficulties in formulating an internationally agreed definition of terrorism is that the term is so slippery. All the actions carried out by terrorists are already crimes under existing laws.