Concerns have been building in Egypt and Sudan about attempts by other countries in the Nile Basin to readdress water allocation agreements forged decades ago.

Turkey has been pressuring Israel this week to permit a flotilla of humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Four people were killed and up to 40 injured late May 26 when an improvised explosive device, filled with shrapnel, detonated in the center of Stavropol, a city about 200 miles northwest of Russia’s restive Caucasus provinces.

Tensions between North and South Korea continued to escalate March 25, following Seoul’s announcement of specific responses to the sinking of a warship.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has backed away from a pledge to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps base from the island of Okinawa — an issue that has become something of an albatross for his administration.

A long-promised deployment of U.S. Patriot missiles is due to arrive in Poland on May 24.

Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig site washed into wetlands along the Louisiana shore May 20, as efforts continued to stop the leak 5,000 feet below sea level in the Gulf of Mexico.

Nine U.S. military personnel were wounded and an American contractor was killed May 19 during a Taliban assault at Bagram, one of the most critical U.S. and coalition military bases in Afghanistan.

Efforts continued on May 18 to end the anti-government Red Shirt rallies in Thailand’s capital, following several days of clashes at various protest sites.

Moderate rainfall in Venezuela has prevented the country’s electricity crisis from turning critical, but the power sector remains in a state of deep disrepair.