India’s government hosts Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for talks on a $7 billion gas pipeline project, deepening the difficulties Washington faces in its attempts to keep Iran isolate

The Taliban’s audacious attack against Afghanistan’s president highlights the difficulties NATO faces in beating the jihadists.

Seeking to stifle at least one aspect of Olympics-related protests, China says it will hold talks with a representative of the Dalai Lama.

There’s talk of a possible peace deal between Israel and Syria over the Golan Heights.

Recent statements from al Qaeda’s No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, speak volumes about fear and loathing in the Middle East and the jihadist groups goal of playing spoiler in Iraq.

While oil demand — especially from China — grows, there are worries about supply, with issues emerging also about the long-term contribution of ethanol.

South Africa’s High Court and waterfront unions refuse to allow a Chinese ship to unload its arms cargo for transshipment to Harare and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe — defyin

The global shortage of grains has reached a geopolitical tipping point, and governments around the world are taking action. Marla Dial reports.

After months of political riots and lingering uncertainty ushered in by hotly contested election results, Kenya welcomes a new coalition government.

Nationalism awakened, the Chinese diaspora is planning a series of pro-Beijing demonstrations in Europe and elsewhere — but the show of support is at best a mixed blessing for the government

France uses food shortages and rising prices as a platform to rekindle EU agricultural subsidies.

The world’s finance ministers and central bankers agree on a World Bank proposal for emergency food aid to those hardest hit by soaring prices, and to 65 new proposals from the World Stabilit

A group of African leaders are meeting to try to sort out the mess in Zimbabwe, the Egyptian government carries on as as usual after the election boycotted by the Muslim Brotherhood, and in the hig

Australia’s prime minister tells Chinese students, in Mandarin, of concerns over Tibet, repeats it to Premier Wen Jiabao, but gets no change….apart from a restarting of a free trade agr

Is the West heading for stalemate or worse in Afghanistan? What about the mess in China? Is Iran near its end game?

Senior analyst Peter Zeihan discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy in the second quarter and beyond with Colin Chapman.

U.S. President George W. Bush returns to Washington without much to show for his 28th and likely final meeting as president with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin, in his first and last meeting with NATO as the Russian president, offers the United States and its allies the chance to use Russian territory to ferry supplies to Afghanistan.

Al Qaeda trains blond,blue-eyed recruits in the Pakistan tribal areas, and Islamabad talks about peace with the Taliban. But the geopolitical reality is that Pakistan needs America too.

As the man who got the most votes hopes to take over in Harare, the enormity of the mess that will sooner or later be left by President Robert Mugabe becomes apparent.

India has banned the export of all non-basmati rice. The world price of rice has doubled since January — climbing by 54 percent in March alone as stocks fell to a 25-year low.

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A look at this week’s violence in southern Iraq and the challenges being posed to Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army.

No longer the Entente Cordiale, but the Entente Amicale, is how French President Nicolas Sarkozy sees the new Anglo-French relationship.

Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army has been at the center of a recent flareup in violence in Iraq, and Middle East Director Kamran Bokhari says the radical Shiite leader — who has been largel