WASHINGTON — It would be an exaggeration to say that in his hefty memoir Donald H. Rumsfeld admits to no mistakes during his years as Pentagon chief. But just barely.

In contrast to last year’s Copenhagen meeting, this year’s United Nations meeting on climate change has all but gone unnoticed. Graham Readfearn examines why.

The U.N. Security Council, in a special meeting on Sudan, said urgent action is needed to assure a peaceful referendum in January on independence for southern Sudan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said a successful vote can lead to a dramatic...

As NATO struggles to define itself in a post-Cold War world of new threats and tight budgets, the alliance this week will lay out a vision for itself that is meant to better reflect the realities of the 21st century.

New York (CNN) — An accused international arms dealer known as “The Merchant of Death” is expected to make a court appearance Wednesday afternoon in New York after his extradition from Thailand.

Groups allied with the Republican Party and financed in part by corporations and millionaires have amassed a crushing 6-to-1 advantage in television spending over those who support Democratic candidates. Ads purchased by the GOP-aligned groups are...

It was after midnight in a remote annex of this isolated tent camp on a windswept gravel plain. Marjorie Saint Hilaire’s three boys were fast asleep, but her mind was racing.

The Obama administration, worried that an upcoming referendum in Sudan could lead to renewed bloodshed, has begun an urgent diplomatic effort to rescue the American-backed peace plan there. President Obama will meet with two of Sudan’s leaders...

Cuba’s communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the island’s state-dominated system is in need...

Violence killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in August, authorities said Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in the country. The month’s toll included 295 civilians killed and 508 wounded, the...