By JAMEY KEATEN and FARNOUSHI AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations officials have circulated proposals for a vast consolidation of its operations and other sweeping reforms to root out inefficiencies, overlaps and cost overruns as the world body faces a critical ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Friday rejected a ruling from the United Nations' top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee a resource-rich region in neighboring Guyana that both nations claim ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces were preparing on Friday to carry out home demolitions across two northern urban refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the governor of one of the camps and Israeli military documents shared with The ...

LONDON (AP) — For Ethel Caterham, the trick to a long life — and in her case, it really has been — is not to argue. Caterham, who is 115, became the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group, after Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher, died ...

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — "Conclave" the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic voting to elect a new pope has been going on for centuries and created a whole genre of historical ...

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities warned the Hamas group Friday that it would face the "harshest measures" if it carried out any attacks from Lebanon. The warning by the Higher Defense Council, Lebanon's top military body, came weeks after several ...