The front lines of Libya’s grinding war weave through the western mountains and around Zlitan, the last city east of Tripoli still under the grip of strongman Moammar Gadhafi. In many places that Gadhafi’s forces have fled, they’ve left behind deadly f…

The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s devastated Ogoniland could be the world’s largest-ever oil clean-up, a United Nations report said Thursday, the pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations more far reaching than thought.

Port-of-Spain: Local Government Minister Chandresh Sharma will spend another night at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital. The Minister was expected to be discharged sometime this morning, but following examination by doctors…

Scores of people died in and around the Syrian city of Hama, activists said, corroborating reports of widespread casualties a day after the start of a military clampdown. FULL STORY | AL-ASSAD CALLS FOR MULTI-PARTY SYSTEM

Tropical Storm Emily unleashed potentially life-threatening heavy rains across Haiti early Thursday, as nearly 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers waited on emergency standby. The Dominican Republic also was to see heavy rain.