Tensions are rising in eastern Ukraine after violent clashes left at least two pro-Russia militants dead.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the U.S. and Europe should set aside their differences with China and Russia to focus on the growing threat of radical Islam.
The United Nations says hundreds of civilians in South Sudan were massacred last week in the city of Bentiu.
In Nigeria, Christians in the Muslim-majority North have been the targets of relentless deadly attacks by Islamic extremists.
Pastor Saeed Abedini sent an Easter message from his hospital bed in Iran, where he's serving an eight-year sentence for his faith.
Some 234 girls are missing from a Nigerian school attacked by Islamic extremists last week, much more than the 85 originally reported.
U.S. troops and NATO allies conducted separate military maneuvers in Europe as part of the strongest Western response so far to Russia's threat to Ukraine.
President Barack Obama arrived in Tokyo Thursday, his first stop on an eight-day fence-mending trip focusing on assuring America's Asian allies.
An airplane that mysteriously ended up in Iran is registered to a Utah bank under an arrangement for aviation ownership that has prompted two warnings from a government watchdog in the past year.
South Korea's president is calling the actions of the captain and some of the crew of the sunken ferry "unforgivable, murderous acts."