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(CNN) -- The people of the world's trouble spots found themselves facing new circumstances as the year 2000 drew to a close.

Ukraine is digesting the White House's 28-point draft plan for peace with Russia. Follow Newsweek's live coverage.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and political rival Morgan Tsvangirai failed to reach an agreement Tuesday over new fissures in their power-sharing deal signed last month, despite hours of ...

While the war in Sudan has most often been portrayed as an internal conflict between two warring generals, the murky involvement of several foreign powers makes the conflict far more complex – and ...

Lebanon’s future may now depend on one man’s balancing act. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is trying to hold together a country that’s falling apart without firing a shot. To Washington and ...

Our weekly briefing on what’s driving events in the Middle East and Washington By Joe Kawly, Aya Elbaz, Ezat Wagdi, and Cheyn Shah Welcome back to the MBN Agenda. Every Tuesday – before dawn in ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, 84, a towering civil rights leader and protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., has been hospitalised in ...

Councils warn that the SEND system is 'close to collapse', with deficits to hit £18bn by the end of Parliament ...

Storm Claudia has caused three deaths in Portugal and severe flooding in the UK, with Monmouth in Wales submerged and England ...

The daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma has appeared in court on charges of incitement to cause terrorism ...