By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU AP CAMP SHORABAK, Afghanistan -- Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join US and NATO troops in an upcoming offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.

By REUTERS SANAA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda called on Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula to wage holy war against Christians and Jews in the region, a further sign of the group's ambitions to mount new strikes outside its base.

CAIRO—Egyptian authorities arrested three senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood organization early Monday in the latest government crackdown on the country's most powerful opposition force.

The incumbent governor-elect of Anambra State Peter Obi speaks on the result of gubernatorial election held in the state on 7 Feb 2010.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Taliban militants are digging in ahead of a major NATO operation in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, in one of the biggest offensives in the eight-year-old war.

JOHANNESBURG—South African President Jacob Zuma, reacting to a firestorm of criticism, has apologized for fathering a child with a woman who wasn't one of his wives.

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - NATO should develop closer ties with China, India, Pakistan and Russia and become the forum for consultation on global security, the alliance's head said on Sunday, but a senior Russian ...

Exit polls from Ukraine indicate that the pro-Moscow opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has narrowly won the presidential election.

Ukraine is in political turmoil. The man whose side was accused of rigging the vote which triggered the 2004 Orange Revolution, Viktor Yanukovych, is claiming victory in the presidential election.

AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Ex-President Nestor Kirchner, husband of Argentina's current leader and a hopeful to resume the office, emerged successfully from emergency surgery on a key artery to his brain Sunday, his doctors said.