The National Security Agency spied on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali as well as other leading critics of the Vietnam War in a secret program later deemed "disreputable," declassified documents revealed Wednesday.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales has urged that UN headquarters be moved from New York because of US "blackmail" and bullying.
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the Saudi Arabia’s claims over the presence of Iranian and Hezbollah troops in Syria is a clear sign of Riyadh’s failed policies in Syria scenario.
A bomb targeting Sunni Muslim mourners in Baghdad killed 15 people on Monday, the third in a series of attacks on funerals that have raised the specter of all-out sectarian conflict.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will hold nuclear talks with counterparts from the six major powers at the United Nations this week, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned ex-Soviet allies that foreign backed militancy fuelling the war in Syria could reach their countries.
Venezuela has lodged a protest to the UN general-secretary over American refusal to issue visas for some members of its delegation to the current session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Two staffers at Al Jazeera's Egyptian channel Al Jazeera Mubashr Misr have been detained for allegedly possessing illegal transmission equipment, according to a judicial statement.
The world's chemical weapons watchdog has received details on the Syrian chemical weapons program, which it has been tasked with dismantling, it said Friday.
The world's chemical weapons watchdog has postponed Sunday's meeting to discuss a Russia-US plan to destroy Syria's arsenal.