SHULTAN, Afghanistan (AFP) - Things are bad back home, says school director Said Nabi Said, one of thousands of Pakistanis who have fled into Afghanistan to escape an...

In New Zealand, interest in the US presidential election is intense, with stories updated hourly in local papers. The New Zealand Herald, Auckland’s largest...

I remember very well that Day of UHURU on Oct 9, 1962I remember seeing the celebrationsand though I was young and in primary schoolbut I remember seeing the British...

The power-sharing being brokered in Zimbabwe is under threat after Robert Mugabe allocated control of three major arms of the government to his ruling Zanu-PF party.

I am writing this blog lying on my stomach in bed in Bujumbura. Although it is not an ideal posture for composing, it is one in which I can be in for an extended period...

For 200 years, descendants of slaves have preserved a distinctive way of life in this village near the Amazon jungle. Amid the stone ruins of plantations, they farmed...

m A 263-page report released Friday by Alaska state investigators has concluded that Alaskan Governor and GOP Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her powers...

Brazilian equestrian rider Bernardo Alves was officially disqualified from the Beijing Olympics on Friday for a positive drug test on his horse.

he Brazilian government will propose to world leaders to resume the WTO’s Doha Development Round talks as a way to fight the international financial crisis,...

Brazil’s president said Friday that emerging market nations like Brazil must have a strong say in developing strict international rules for financial...

At an anger fest posing as a political rally for Republican nominee John McCain, a resentful women took the microphone and told John McCain that she worried about Obama...

Although many Americans believe immigration is a domestic issue that should be excluded from talks with other governments, this is not a view held in other nations—or...

Senator McCain claims that the U.S. is “winning” in Iraq and that a surge will lead to victory in Afghanistan. This, despite the fact the General Petraeus keeps...

No Body could tell us what the two American Journalist who were arrested in Syria were doing there and why they had entered it by trafficking? Usually, Respected...

The New York market watch publication, Investor’s Business Daily, is read avidly by Wall Street traders for its often astute and thorough coverage of the stock...

This past Saturday at its 52nd International General Conference held in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) again called for the establishment of a...

The good news is that the freelance American journalists who went missing in Lebanon earlier this month have been found... in a Syrian jail. Yesterday, just a day after...

After two Presidential debates it’s becomingly increasingly clear there will be little discussion of U.S.-Latin American relations in the final month.How will the...

IF ANALOGIES with the Great Depression are scary for Americans, they are hardly less so for Latin Americans. Within a few years of the 1929 stockmarket crash, 16...

Yes, times are hard. We’ve bailed out AIG. Lehman went under. Banks have gone under. People are losing their homes faster than a wildfire spreads....