El Salvador's electoral court has declared ruling party candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren the winner of last week's presidential election, after rejecting the opposition's challenge to the results. Election officials said late Sunday that Mr. Ceren of the Farabundo ...

Paris, in an effort to ease dangerous pollution levels, is allowing only cars with license plates that end in odd numbers on the road Monday. Vehicles with even license plate numbers are designated to be the only ones on the road Tuesday, if the pollution ...

The U.N. Security Council will vote Saturday on a U.S.-drafted resolution urging countries not to recognize the results of an upcoming Crimean referendum. Sunday's referendum gives residents of Crimea only two choices: joining Russia or the significant ...

Four people are now confirmed dead in Wednesday's deadly building explosion in New York City's famous Harlem neighborhood. Rescue crews worked past midnight searching through the rubble to locate nine other people who were still missing after a gas ...

A South African police forensics analyst says Oscar Pistorius was probably not wearing his prosthetic legs when he used a cricket bat to hit the door through which he fatally shot his girlfriend, an assertion that counters claims made by the athlete. In court ...

Cairo — Leaders of eastern Libya's self-declared autonomous region of Barqa declared Saturday that they had begun exporting oil from the port of Sidra and would share revenues with the central government in accordance with a 1951 constitution.

The International Criminal Court has convicted former Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to a 2003 massacre in the central African nation. The court on Friday ruled that Katanga helped facilitate and ...

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA — The long-awaited murder trial of South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius began this week, bringing with it drama and explosive testimony. The first week of Oscar Pistorius' murder trial has delivered as many twists and turns as ...

India says it will begin its multi-stage parliamentary election in April, with opinion polls suggesting that an opposition, Hindu nationalist block could upset the longtime ruling Congress Party. Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath said on Wednesday a ...

JOHANNESBURG — The first witness in the murder trial of South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius spent several hours being grilled by defense attorney Barry Roux in a Pretoria courtroom Monday and Tuesday. During testimony from the stand Monday, ...

CAIRO — Egyptian armed forces chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has given the clearest signal yet that he will run for president, saying he cannot ignore the demands of the “majority”, Egypt's state news agency reported on Tuesday. El-Sissi, who ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is reinforcing U.S. support for Ukraine's sovereignty Tuesday, as he visits Kyiv amid a growing crisis over Russia's military presence in the Ukrainian region of Crimea. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Kerry is ...

ISLAMABAD — An outlawed alliance of extremist outfits, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is commonly referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, says it will observe a one-month cease-fire to allow peace talks with the government to resume. Spokesman ...

South Sudan's foreign minister has denied media reports that top envoys to Washington and other countries were recalled after they failed to convince the host countries that there was an attempt to overthrow President Salva Kiir's administration.

Egypt's outgoing housing chief has been named as the new prime minister after the surprise resignation of the country's interim government. Interim President Adly Mansour picked Ibrahim Mahlab on Tuesday to form a new government. Mahlab headed ...

CAIRO — Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi handed in his government's resignation Monday, amid increasing economic pressures, including a series of labor strikes. Beblawi had been expected to reorganize his Cabinet in the lead-up to ...

(UPDATES with new lede, new info grafs 3-4, adds sound/video)) Egypt's interim prime minister has announced the resignation of his Cabinet in a surprise move that could pave the way for the country's military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to declare his ...

Africa's oldest head of state, Robert Mugabe, turned 90 years old Friday, amid concerns about his health and the cost of his birthday festivities. The Zimbabwean president left the country on Monday for what his office said was a eye cataract operation in ...

Witnesses in the Ukrainian capital say at least 22 people have been killed in fresh clashes that erupted between anti-government protesters and police, hours after President Viktor Yanukovych announced a truce with opposition leaders. Some of those killed ...

Thai opposition protesters are stepping up their campaign against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, after clashes with police left five dead a day earlier. Thousands of anti-government protesters surrounded the prime minister's temporary office in Bangkok, ...