New Defence Secretary John Hutton made his first visit to Iraq on Sunday, accompanied by officials who will discuss with Iraqi counterparts the future of the British military mission in Iraq.
Two bombs exploded in quick succession in a busy central Baghdad street on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding about 20, Iraqi police said.
A United Nations aid convoy protected by U.N. peacekeepers will head into a rebel-held zone of east Congo on Monday to try to reach tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting, the U.N. said on Sunday.
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda threatened on Thursday to occupy an eastern city unless U.N. peacekeepers guaranteed a cease-fire, while foreign envoys scrambled to secure peace on the Rwanda-Congo border.
Escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is creating a humanitarian catastrophe and could have tragic consequences for the entire region, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday.
Syria called on the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to take action to prevent a repeat of a weekend U.S. attack on Syrian territory, and to hold the United States accountable.
A regional meeting failed to break a deadlock threatening Zimbabwe's power-sharing accord on Monday, prompting the 15-nation Southern African Development Community to call for an urgent full-scale summit on the crisis.
U.S. military helicopters attacked a farm in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border on Sunday, killing eight civilians, including five members of the same family, Syria said.
Zimbabwean opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not attend a regional summit on Zimbabwe's political crisis, a party spokesman said, throwing the mediation process into disarray.
Southern African leaders representing the regional grouping SADC hold a summit in Swaziland on Monday to try to help Zimbabwe's rival parties break a deadlock in negotiations on forming a cabinet.
Talks on forming a Zimbabwean cabinet deadlocked on Thursday with political parties still fighting over who should control key ministries but negotiators said they would try again on Friday, the opposition MDC said.
A Dubai court on Thursday sentenced two Britons found guilty of having sex on a Dubai beach to three months jail, a 1,000 dirham (157 pound) fine and deportation.
South Africa's ruling ANC may call an early general election in an attempt to undermine plans by former party officials to form a breakaway group, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
Washington and Baghdad have reached a final agreement after months of talks on a pact that would require U.S. forces to withdraw from Iraq by 2011, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.
In the visiting hall of the U.S. prison camp, Delal Hashem, 25, sat opposite her husband Abbas Daoud Salman with the children she had brought to see him for the first time since he was captured 14 months ago.
Zimbabwe's parliament resumes work on Tuesday for a session that could test a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Israel's Kadima and Labour parties are close to a deal on a coalition government led by Tzipi Livni, a move that sets her on course to form a new centrist administration, Army Radio said on Sunday.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has allocated three important government ministries to his ZANU-PF party, angering the opposition and threatening a power-sharing deal.
Police used tear gas and water cannon to try and stamp out clashes between Jews and Arabs in Israel's northern coastal city of Acre Thursday, officials said.
Two blasts struck outside Iraq's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday as visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte prepared to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound nearby, Reuters reporters at the scene said.
