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A day after accusing Islamabad of not doing enough to book Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based terrorist blamed for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday called on Pakistan to do more to crack down on violent extremism.

The United States is sending a team of energy experts to help India reduce its dependence on Iranian oil, while acknowledging that New Delhi has cut back its oil imports from Tehran.

Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the UN and the Arab League, briefs reporters in Geneva.

A Democratic Republic of Congo researcher says north Kivu residents are expressing concerns about a resumption of violence as the national army’s imposed ceasefire expires Wednesday.

After Greece's mainstream conservatives failed to cobble together a coalition, the radical leftist Syriza party was Tuesday given the mandate to start building a unity government.

Avoiding early general elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a deal with the opposition Kadima party to form a unity government.

America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has claimed to have foiled an Al Qaeda bid to target a US-bound plane ahead of the death of anniversary of slain terrorist leader Osama bin-Laden.

The Syrian government Monday held the first multi-party parliament elections in 50 years in what President Bashar al Assad's regime called political reforms but the opposition boycotted the polls calling the exercise a sham that was aimed to preserve the dictator rule.

Vladimir V. Putin took over as Russian president for the third time Monday, even as hundreds protested against his taking over the mantle again.

In a vote marked by widespread anger over austerity measures, high unemployment and an economy in slowdown, Francois Hollande was elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades, defeating Nicolas Sarkozy.