Most death squad killings appear to be sectarian, with Sunni Muslim gunmen targeting Shia neighborhoods, and Shiite

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – South Korea on Tuesday sought talks with North Korea, which would be their highest-level meeting

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi accused Israel on Tuesday of excessive

GAZA (Reuters) – Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding eight people, local residents and medics said.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon and U.N. official Shashi Tharoor received the most endorsements in the Security Council’s straw poll for the next U.N. secretary-general, diplomats said on Monday.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Monday its test-firing of missiles this month was conducted in a “completely safe” way because it made sure ships and aircraft were not in the area before the launch.

ABUJA (Reuters) – The latest violence linked to next year’s elections in Nigeria has killed at least 15 people in two southern states, local leaders and police said on Monday.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose country abandoned weapons of mass destruction programs in 2003, said that at one stage Libya had come close to building a nuclear bomb,

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has put its diplomatic missions abroad on high alert for possible attacks by Hizbollah or local Muslims angered by Israel’s offensive against the Lebanese guerrilla group, security sources said on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain hopes a peace plan for Lebanon can emerge within days that could lead to a ceasefire, but only after details are worked out for an international force, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday.