A global recession and the hijacking of international aid are among factors behind a potentially “life-threatening” humanitarian funding crisis facing Somalia as aid funds dwindle, according to the United Nations’ top envoy to Somalia.
The father of a man suspected of trying to bring down a U.S. jetliner had recently contacted the U.S. Embassy to warn his son had “become radicalized,” a source says.
Kenneth Bacon, a former reporter and Pentagon spokesman who later served as a top advocate of displaced people all over the world, died Saturday, according to Refugees International. He was 64.
At least 23 prisoners were killed and 20 injured in a prison riot Wednesday in the northern Mexican state of Durango, state officials said.
Fights over the economy and health care may be dominating the headlines at home, but President Obama is turning his sights abroad this week.
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson have won the Nobel Prize for economics, the Nobel Committee announced Monday.
On the final stop of the Tea Party Express, activists marched to the U.S. Capitol today to protest health care reform, higher taxes and what they see as out-of-control government spending. The conservative advocacy group made its way from California, hosting rallies in about 30 cities.
Argentina’s central bank president was removed from his post by presidential decree, a possible final blow in a political standoff between the banker and the executive.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said it is joining the inquiry into claims that some of its private security guards practiced hazing rituals, sexual activity and intimidation.
A global human rights group is urging Kenya to stop Somali military recruiters from enlisting displaced men and boys in Kenya’s sprawling Dadaab refugee camps to fight in their war against Islamic militants.
U.S. scientists monitoring shrinking glaciers in Washington State and Alaska reported this week that a major meltdown is under way.
A suicide bomber ends a series of deadly attacks in Iraq by detonating explosives in a hospital emergency ward where victims of two earlier blasts were being treated.
A Russian writer who contradicted some authorities by suggesting a hijacked cargo ship was carrying something other than timber has told CNN he has fled Russia because of threats. The Arctic Sea reported trouble off Finland, then was not heard from for several days. Russian forces faced no resistance when they boarded it off the coast of Africa.
Renault’s Formula One team is handed a two-year suspended ban by the sport’s governing body after a hearing into their part in fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Former team boss Flavio Briatore, pictured above, was also banned from the sport for an unlimited period.
Whenever Deng Huidong sees a little boy around 3 years of age, she can’t help but wonder if he’s her son. Human traffickers snatched him more than a year ago. Huidong believes he was sold, possibly within hours, to a family without a son looking for a male heir. But she and other parents complain of police indifference when children go missing.
Developed countries need to quadruple their efforts to cut carbon emissions in the next ten years or risk a dangerous rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new report.