Honduras's de facto leader said he may give up his presidential duties for a week so voters can focus on an election that Washington hopes will help end a five-month-old political crisis.

The United States is seeking the release of a U.S. citizen detained in Beijing for two years, in a case similar to the detentions of Rio Tinto staff which launched an international debate over China's secrets laws.

Argentina's Senate passed a bill Thursday that could see hundreds of people take mandatory tests to determine whether their parents were among the thousands who disappeared under military rule.

Now that the European Union has a new president and foreign policy supremo, the U.S. State Department might finally learn exactly who to call when Hillary Clinton wants to talk to Europe.

A group of Cambodian soldiers have arrived in Chad as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, the U.N. said on Thursday.

Roman Polanski will not agree voluntarily to being extradited to the United States over a 1970s child sex case, the film director's lawyer said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Friday.

The Portuguese navy thwarted an attack on a local fishing boat by pirates off the coast of Somalia, officials said on Thursday.

U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed the appointment of the EU's first president Thursday, saying it would make Europe an “even stronger partner” for the United States.

Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident to stoke a diplomatic dispute between the Andean neighbors.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who many Republicans have been pushing to run for governor in 2010, is instead leaning more toward a run for U.S. Senate, according to two party advisers.