Anti-government protesters and riot police have clashed in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The stand-off in the city’s central Independence Square has left at least 21 people, including policemen and protesters, dead in the bloodiest day since Ukraine won its independence more than 22 years ago. Hundreds more have been injured, …

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Tunisia to offer continued American assistance to the North African nation where uprisings that toppled authoritarian leaders around the Arab world first ignited in 2011.

A crowd of protesters seeking constitutional change clashed violently with police in central Kiev Tuesday morning. The protesters attacked police with Molotov cocktails outside the parliament building. 

Ukraine’s pro-EU opposition leaders jetted to Germany for talks with Angela Merkel on Monday as the country took a small step to resolving its worst post-Soviet crisis with the adoption of a political amnesty.

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych will most likely submit his proposal for a new Prime Minister later this week. This comes almost a month after PM Mykola Azarov resigned, following months of turbulent and often violent anti-government

The leader of Central African Republic asked French troops Monday to stay until polls due in early 2015. Interim President Catherine Samba Panza’s appeal came three days after France’s decision to

Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf appeared at a Pakistani court hearing on treason charges on Tuesday, but the case was delayed after his lawyers challenged the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

The European Union (EU) announced Monday financial support of 12 million euro (USD 16.4 mn) to help destroy Syrian chemical stockpiles, by contributing to a Trust Fund established by the Organisation for the Prohibition of

Syria’s army and rebels agreed a truce in the capital’s southern suburb of Babbila Monday, the latest in a series of local ceasefires in Damascus flashpoints.

Lebanon’s prime minister formed a Cabinet more than 10 months after taking office on Saturday, including a wide range of political groups after bridging serious divisions among them mostly over Syria’s civil war. “This is a unity Cabinet that represents at the present time the best formula for Lebanon with …