ROME — Governments around the world should keep their borders open to refugees, the head of the UN refugee agency said on Monday, as new data showed the number of refugees rising to its highest level in 50 years.
ROME — Governments around the world should keep their borders open to refugees, the head of the UN refugee agency said on Monday, as new data showed the number of refugees rising to its highest level in 50 years.
Canford Cliffs denied globetrotting mare Goldikova a 14th Group One victory and staked his claim to be Europe’s top miler when he outbattled the French raider to win the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Australia's Casey Dellacqua and Scott Lipsky of the United States defeated defending champions Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic to win the French Open mixed doubles title on Thursday.
Ireland’s Damien McGrane took a one-shot lead at the Ballantine’s Championship on Thursday as clicking cameras distracted new world number one Lee Westwood during a frustrating first round.
LISBON - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would agree to talks on the transition of power, Portuguese daily Publico on Thursday quoted a diplomatic source as saying after Foreign Minister Luis Amado met Gaddafi’s envoy in Lisbon.
MOSCOW - Russia’s anti-drug tsar said on Monday a UN campaign to curb the illegal production of heroin in Afghanistan was useless and had no chance of succeeding.
LONDON — Britain on Wednesday overturned some of its most unpopular anti-terrorism measures imposed after the Sept. 11 attacks, but stopped short of ending the contentious practice of ordering suspects not charged with any crime to live under partial house arrest.
Noumea, capital of the French Pacific territory New Caledonia, was put on red alert Friday as Tropical Cyclone Vania headed for the region after battering the Loyalty Islands, about 300 km to the north, Radio New Zealand International reported.
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haiti mourned more than 300,000 victims of its devastating 2010 earthquake on Wednesday in a somber, poignant one-year anniversary clouded by pessimism over slow reconstruction and political uncertainty.
SYDNEY - Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged financial support for Australia’s flood-hit northeast on Saturday during a tour of the most heavily inundated parts of Queensland state, but warned the recovery would be slow.