MANILA, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Five soldiers were killed and 11 wounded on the 18th day of fighting with a faction of the rebel group Moro National Liberation Front in southern Philippines.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pledged to clean the country's politics when she took office Jan. 1, 2011, but her actions are having some unpredictable consequences.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- National development is "hypothetical" in the Democratic Republic of Congo when faced with threats from external aggression, the president said.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A special court for former Liberian President Charles Taylor affirmed his 50-year sentence imposed for war crimes in neighboring Sierra Leone's civil war.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Some of Syria's strongest Islamist rebel groups have joined forces to reject the Western-backed Syrian National Council and form a new alliance that could significantly alter the dynamics of the 2-1/2-year-old uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Hezbollah is putting its own agenda in the Middle East ahead of the interests of the people of Lebanon, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Libya wants to see members of the former regime of Moammar Gadhafi returned from countries where they found shelter after the war, the prime minister said.
LONDON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Trying to adhere to a military focus on Asia while navigating crises in the Middle East may be tough for the Obama administration, Britain's Chatham House said.
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Myanmar needs to take ownership of its own peace initiatives if it's to have any real expectations for the future, members of The Elders said.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The United Nations announced Thursday it was sending a high-ranking human rights official on a five-day tour of Yemen where she'll open an office for the OHCHR.
PARIS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- An international human rights federation said it was concerned about the durability of human rights progress in post-intervention Afghanistan.
LYON, France, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The international police organization Interpol said Thursday it sent a team to Kenya to help authorities investigate the terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall.
MANAMA, Bahrain, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Bahrain's reputation on the international stage has been tarnished by reporting from a hostile media, the government's spokeswoman said Thursday.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Arrests over the cocaine haul in France are mounting in Venezuela, drawing President Nicolas Maduro's government into a bruising political confrontation with the opposition.
MILAN, Italy, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The daughter of a late mafia chieftain who once worked for former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was arrested this week in an organized crime sting.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The four-day seizure of an upscale shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, in which dozens of people were killed by a platoon of diehard jihadists of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab group is a fearsome indication of how Islamist terrorism is swelling across Africa.
CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Australian Federal Police have arrested four people, including two Canadians, in connection with a near record seizure of the drug ephedrine.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague called on Russia and China to follow the U.S. example set Wednesday by signing an international arms trade treaty.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The European Commission said Wednesday the terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, required a "comprehensive and coordinated response."
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Somalia is commended for its political progress though the human rights and national security situation present challenges, a U.N. rights official said.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Lebanese military said Wednesday a member of the Syrian rebel group al-Nusra Front was killed after crossing a checkpoint in the east of the country.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Liberia has come a long way since the end of civil war, notably with its economy, but still has a long way to go on the road to recovery, its president said.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Washington and Moscow have a common understanding on Syria, though Russia's foreign minister said he was concerned rebels may have illicit weapons.
BANGUI, Central African Republic, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday much of the healthcare system in the Central African Republic was wiped out by banditry.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The European Union said Wednesday it was eager to move forward with the association agenda on the table for Ukraine later this year.
World War II veteran Eugene Morgan of West Memphis, Arkansas, tours the World War II Memorial after members of congress took down barriers to let a group of veterans in to the closed memorial, on October 2, 2013 in Washington, D.C. All national parks and memorials are closed due to the ongoing government shutdown. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
