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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United States is rethinking its opposition to arming Syrian rebels.

Somali families displaced at Dhobley near the Somalia-Kenya border.

South Korea says it is making progress with the North on allowing the return of its workers who remain at a suspended joint industrial zone just north of the border.

Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, center, presides the Corps Commander Conference at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Officials in Russia say President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama have agreed to increase contacts between their countries' intelligence agencies following the Boston Marathon bombings.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Monday in Moscow in the first meeting between leaders of the two countries in 10 years.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (at lectern) speaks to reporters before his meeting with ?ke Sellström (left), head of the UN technical mission to investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government is denying it has pulled out of the Kampala peace talks with the M23 rebels, and says it is the rebels who have left the talks. Congo’s government spokesman said talks are not going well because the rebels have been making impossible demands.

U.S. lawmakers say America cannot ignore Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons.

Special Representative Martin Kobler.