President begins talks to appoint an emergency government in time for the opening of markets on Monday.
Papademos faces a race against time to save debt-stricken nation from bankruptcy after a historic power-sharing deal.
Saudi Arabia accuses Syria of failing to stop attacks on its embassy after the Arab League voted to punish Damascus over its crackdown on protests.
Iran must review its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog due to the hostile nature of a report on the country’s atomic program, parliament speaker Ali Larijani warned on Sunday. In an explicit warning to the International Atomic En
Ties between Sudan and the newly independent south are badly strained after violence surged along their tense border and darkened the prospects of talks, but analysts say all-out war is unlikely. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said Th
Yemen’s army and tribal fighters killed nine suspected al-Qaeda militants overnight in a southern city where central government control has been weakened by months of political paralysis, residents and local officials said. Five militants, one of them
Hundreds of Indonesian Islamists rallied in central Jakarta on Sunday to protest against this week’s visit by President Barack Obama. Around 2,500 protesters from the radical Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir shouted “Reject Obama” and “Am
Pakistan took a lot of criticism in Saturday’s Republican U.S. presidential debate, with a leading candidate saying it was nearly a failed state and another suggesting the United States cut its foreign aid to zero. But it is unclear whether any of