As world leaders gathered in Caracas for the funeral of Hugo Chávez,  acting president Nicolas Maduro told Venezuelans that the late leader's people would always have him -- on display in a glass coffin, "just like Lenin and Mao."

China joined other UN Security Council members in a unanimous vote in favor of tightening sanctions on North Korea to punish it for last month's nuclear test. The vote came after a series of increasingly shrill threats from Pyongyang, including a ...

A supporter of Bangladesh's ruling party was killed in clashes amid a nationwide strike called by the opposition Bangladesh National Party and its Islamist ally Jamaat-e-Islami. Violence has killed at least 68 people since a Jamaat leader found gu...

North Korea stepped up its anti-US rhetoric even further ahead of a UN vote on new sanctions, vowing to exercise its right to a "pre-emptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors." Pyongyang earlier threatened to rip up the 1...

Police in Zimbabwe have stepped up a crackdown on foreign radio broadcasts ahead of elections scheduled for July and seized the wind-up radios NGOs have distributed to rural communities. Authorities claim broadcasts from outside the country are sp...

Israel systematically mistreats the hundreds of Palestinian children aged between 12 and 17 it detains every year, according to a report from UNICEF. Al Jazeera reports from the West Bank on abuses during recent protests.

Citizens and surrounding nations are wondering what's next in Venezuela now that the loved, and hated, leader Hugo Chavez has died. The charistmatic Chavez kept his oil-rich nation united and wooed allies with some $7 billion in economic aid. Chav...

Confidence in the new voting system is crucial if Kenya is to avoid a repeat of the violence that marred the country's last general election in 2007. Results were initially expected within 48 hours of the close of polls, but the Independent Electo...

The Malaysian Army has launched mortars and fighter jets against a group of some 200 Filipino gunmen in the eastern Sabah state who killed several policemen last month when they slipped past Malaysian naval patrols. They're seeking to reclaim part...

Polling has now officially closed in Kenya's general election, but some stations have remained open to allow those already in line to cast their votes. It is the first time Kenyans have voted under a new constitution, designed to prevent a repeat...