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It's still not the time to talk about sanctions against Iran as the door of diplomacy is still open on finding a compromise over its nuclear program, He Yafei, China's ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva, said on Wednesday.
With the Mideast peace process stalled and US-Israeli relations in crisis, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton headed Wednesday to a Mideast strategy meeting of top international diplomats.
Ernest Hemingway's Key West home, where the American author lived in the 1930s, has been designated a literary landmark.
Federal prosecutors say a Colorado company illegally exported technology used by the US military to South Korea, China, Russia and Turkey.
These Somali pirates picked the wrong ship to hijack.
A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.
As fishermen capture and kill sharks for valuable fins in Ecuador, the animal there are facing the danger to decline.
Chilean Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter estimated on Tuesday that the damage caused by the devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake and the ensuing Tsunami on February 27 will reach $30 billion.
Even for Chileans who have become used to aftershocks since the February earthquake, the 6.7-magnitude quake that hit near the coast of Concepcion Monday night was terrible enough to deprive many of shut-eye.
An aftershock of 6.7-magnitude hit near the coast of Concepcion on Monday, registering the strongest one since the 8.8-magnitude temblor on February 27 that battered the Chilean city.
