KINSHASA — The European Union will provide 2.5 million euros ($3.5 million) to help care for rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo under an agreement signed Monday.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former Washington Mutual executives have agreed to pay $208.5 million to settle a lawsuit launched by a group of investors after the bank's failure in 2008, the largest ever of its kind.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama is calling on Sudan's warring factions to end the bloody violence threatening a peace agreement as the south gears up for independence due in three weeks.
CAIRO (AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal were set to bury the hatchet at a Cairo ceremony Wednesday that puts the seal on nearly four years of division but has angered Israel.
LOS ANGELES — Former secretary of state Warren Christopher, a "diplomat's diplomat" who helped negotiate peace in the former Yugoslavia and advanced the Middle East peace process, has died at the age of 85, officials said.
A wary South Korea stayed on guard against North Korea Tuesday, with jet fighters and warships deployed, a day after the communist state backed off from threats of attack over a live-fire exercise.
