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Woman voting in the Hamdallaye area of Conakry, the capital of Guinea in June 2010.

South Korea has summoned Japan's ambassador in Seoul to protest recent visits by Japanese lawmakers and officials to a controversial shrine seen by many as a symbol of Tokyo's colonial past.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered starkly different views of the Syrian civil war Tuesday, after meeting at NATO headquarters.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council Tuesday condemned, in the strongest terms, a deadly attack on the French Embassy in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, affirming the responsibility of Libyan authorities to ensure protection for diplomatic premises.

U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns about the sharing of intelligence among federal enforcement agencies, as investigators continue to piece together last week's deadly bombing of the Boston Marathon.

Afghan police say they believe the Taliban abducted nine members of a group working to remove deadly mines in southern Afghanistan.

At a time of heightened tension on the Korean peninsula, South Korea's government says its defense minister has been targeted in what it terms an attempted act of “terror.”

Nineteen-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now faces U.S. federal criminal charges in connection with last week’s bombings at the Boston Marathon. If convicted, Tsarnaev could face the death penalty.

Destruction caused by Boko Haram militia at a police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria.