Crime threatens SAfrica 2010 World Cup - U.S. envoy
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The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa said in an interview published on Sunday that few would travel to the 2010 World Cup in the country if crime continued at current levels.
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The body of an American diplomat gunned down in Khartoum was placed aboard a jet Thursday for a flight out of the country, and FBI agents arrived to investigate his slaying, U.S. Embassy officials said.
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The top American diplomat for Africa said that some of the violence that has swept across Kenya in the past month was ethnic cleansing.
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Nairobi, Kenya  - Amid fears that war could return to Africa&#39;s Great Lakes region following the massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi, the African Union is pressing for the killings to be treated as a terrorist ...
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HELSINKI, Finland - US embassies in Finland and Latvia issued a rare warning to Americans in the Nordic and Baltic region to be wary of shopping centers and public transport amid a threat of a possible terror attack Monday.
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The United States is cutting aid to Serbia and Montenegro and may take further punitive measures if Belgrade persists in defying the United Nations war crimes tribunal, the U.S. ambassador to Serbia warned on Friday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The top U.S. envoy to Africa called the month of post-election violence in Kenya "ethnic cleansing" and said Wednesday Washington was reconsidering hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the country.
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A U.S. tourist who told airport inspectors that dynamite in his bags was a souvenir from South America has been charged with breaking two security laws and could face up to 10 years in prison and steep fines.
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The United States on Monday updated a travel warning to Cote D&#39;lvoire, citing violence and safety concerns in the African country.
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Africa's top watchdog has rapped South Africa for failing to tackle one of the world's highest crime rates, an emotive issue for a country hosting the 2010 football World Cup, a Sunday paper has said.
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DAKAR, Senegal, Nov. 25 -- UN Security Council diplomats appealed to Rwanda for restraint Thursday after Rwandan President Paul Kagame threatened to renew Central Africa&#39;s deadliest conflict, claiming his
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KINGSTON, JAMAICA - It was certainly not how the United States wanted to open the next stage of qualification play for a spot in the 2006 World Cup, but all things considered, things could have gone much worse at &quot;The Office.&quot; ...
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Chicago Tribune - The top U.S. diplomat in Havana said Tuesday that Cuban officials have threatened to take retaliatory action unless he removes a large sign symbolizing Cuba's jailed dissidents from the front lawn of the U.S. diplomatic mission.
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PARIS On the eve of the American presidential election, the US State Department has warned US citizens in Nordic and Baltic countries of a potential imminent terrorist attack in the region.
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UNITED NATIONS : A UN envoy told the Security Council that widespread war crimes likely had taken place in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region.
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is under pressure over crime but his annual speech is expected to highlight poverty.
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The murder of a soccer player and kidnapping of the mother of another have shown that not even Brazil&#39;s pride and joy -- soccer -- is immune from the violent crime that sweeps over cities.