Refugees Flee Iraq in Record Numbers

India�s trade deficit widened in May to a record $10.77 billion as the pace of export growth slowed and oil import costs surged, official data showed on Tuesday, helping the rupee fall to a 15-month low. Analysts said the surge in global oil ...

Iraqi officials said six police officers and another victim were killed Sunday in a truck bomb blast about 45 miles north of Baghdad. The explosion happened on a road in Duluiyah where a parked truck packed with explosives was detonated with a ...

A senior Iranian oil official said he expected crude prices to rise to $150 a barrel in the near future with the onset of higher demand in summer, the semi- official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. Oil hit another record near $143 a barrel on ...

Addressing at the inaugural session of the Interim Arab Parliament opened here earlier in the day, Moussa said there is some little progress in the Mideast peace process, but this is not enough. Israeli settlement activities that are still ...

GAO and Pentagon reports show violence in Iraq decreasing. Now we must help Iraqis achieve security and prosperity Comment is free guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk Comment is free Beneath the triumphant veneer that the 2007 surge of US forces to Iraq ...

Major powers are to blame for persistent global violence due to increased arms production and sales to areas of conflict, an international peace summit has been told. The World Peace Forum, co-hosted by Indonesia's second largest Islamic ...

The United Nations says more than 30,000 Burmese refugees living in Thailand have been sent to third countries in what it calls the world's largest resettlement operation...High Commissioner for Refugees says the number of departures since the ...

3 Bangkok: Iraq national team coach Adnan Hamad has parted company with the Asian champions just days after the side were eliminated from 2010 World Cup qualifying. Hamad, 47, opted not to sign a new contract after Iraq's 1-0 defeat by Qatar at the ...

Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents. One infant was snatched, decapitated, burned and left on his ...

Driving Cabs Instead of Building Bridges, Iraqis Languish in U.S...Today Safar, 31, is a jobless refugee in Takoma Park, part of a new wave of professional Iraqis who have received special immigration privileges because, in many cases, their work ...