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Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has pulled out of the U.N.-supervised audit of June's disputed runoff election.

WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin.

Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed two people in a wave of attacks that also included bombing two high-rise buildings.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says Iraq has made political progress that has generated greater support from the region and the world.

Vietnam is sending a special envoy to China to try to rebuild relations badly strained by conflict over Beijing's decision to deploy an oil rig in waters also claimed by Hanoi.

French President Francois Hollande has dissolved the government

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks on the telephone.

A new U.N. report points to a sharp increase in numbers of boat people mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, and Bangladesh. Activists fear a further surge of refugee boat people, especially ethnic Rohingya fleeing squalid refugee camps and persecution in Myanmar.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief in Klayman v. Obama, a high-profile lawsuit that challenges mass surveillance, arguing that Americans' telephone metadata deserves the highest protection of the Fourth Amendment.