THE HAGUE (AFP) - The Dutch troop deployment in Afghanistan, often held up as a model for other peace missions, ends after four years on Sunday amid concerns about the void it will leave.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster reached the 100-day mark Wednesday with hopes high that BP is finally on the verge of permanently sealing its ruptured Macondo well.
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Argentina and Uruguay have agreed to a joint environmental monitoring program along the shared Uruguay River, ending a seven-year pollution controversy over a Finnish paper mill on the Uruguayan side.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan Thursday observed a day of mourning for the 152 people killed in the country's worst aviation disaster, as rescue workers searched for the aircraft's black box.
VILLERS-AU-TERTRE, France (AFP) - French police detained a couple after the bodies of eight new-born babies were found in a house and in the garden of another home in a northern village, officials said Wednesday.
PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) - A federal judge Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's new immigration law, barring police from checking the immigrant status of suspected criminals.
BANGALORE, India (AFP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron kicked off a trade-focused visit to India on Wednesday with a warning to neighbouring Pakistan against promoting the "export of terror."
BELGRADE (AFP) - Serbia submitted a resolution to the United Nations Wednesday which, in an apparent concession to international pressure, called for new negotiations on Kosovo but did not insist on status talks.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster reached the 100-day mark Wednesday with hopes high BP can finish the job, but years of legal wrangles and probes lie ahead even after the well is killed.
SAO PAULO (AFP) - A Brazilian television presenter accused of ordering murders to boost his crime show's ratings has died of an infection while hospitalized, media reported Wednesday.
