STRASBOURG, France: A European Parliament delegation said Wednesday it has been conducting secret talks with North Korea over the last three years to try to persuade Pyongyang to negotiate an end to its nuclear program. The group led by British MEP Nirj Deva has met senior North Korean...

Local authorities outside Damascus say regime forces have cut off their town from a surrounding rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, isolating 20,000 residents with no access to aid. A member of the local council of Harasta said Wednesday that residents have been in underground shelters for long...

Candidates of Sierra Leone’s ruling and main opposition parties are heading for a presidential runoff after March 7 elections failed to produce a first-round winner. Chief electoral commissioner Mohamed N’Fah Alie Conteh said Tuesday that opposition candidate and former military junta...

A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and...