An American who was jailed for illegally crossing the border into North Korea was released after a visit to the Communist country by former US President Jimmy Carter.

Former US President Jimmy Carter departed on his mission to North Korea that US officials said is aimed at bringing home an imprisoned American.

The son of a US politician has dismissed a claim by former US President Jimmy Carter that an outburst during a speech by Barack Obama was "based on racism."

Former US President Jimmy Carter said Republican representative Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.

HE HAD a tight grip on all aspects of his nation’s life but Romanian diplomats were anxious that their president Nicolae Ceausescu would not be outdone by rival communist leader Marshall Tito during a 90-minute stopover in Shannon during April, 1978.

Former US President Jimmy Carter and others are pressing ahead with a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe, though the state newspaper in the troubled southern African country has signalled they are unwelcome.

BERTIE Ahern edged back into the international limelight as he took up a global peacemaking role.

Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination tonight, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House.

Former US President Jimmy Carter defied American and Israeli warnings today and met the exiled leader of Hamas and the militant group's deputy chief.

THE year 1977 was not a great one from the standpoint of the state papers. Historically, the most important events were related to that year’s general election. As the civil servants were not formally involved, the elections were glossed over in the state papers.

Al Gore said today that global warming was not a political issue but a worldwide crisis.

Former US President Jimmy Carter was involved in a public row with officials who tried to stop him meeting Darfur refugees today.

Rocker and activist Bono has been given a US honorary award for his humanitarian work in Africa.

Nelson Mandela has celebrated his 89th birthday today with a star-studded football match and the launch of a humanitarian campaign, joined by former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other elders of the global village.

Former US President Jimmy Carter is due to pay courtesy calls on President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern during a visit to Ireland today.

FORMER US President Jimmy Carter has said his remarks were “careless or misinterpreted” when he said that George W Bush’s administration has been the “worst in history” for its impact around the world.

Former US President Jimmy Carter lambasted Tony Blair for his “blind” support of the Iraq war today, saying it had been a “major tragedy for the world”.

Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist revolutionary who fought US-backed insurgents in the 1980s, has won presidential elections in Nicaragua.

The US has decided not to seek a seat on the new UN Human Rights Council for now, preferring instead to see how the body takes shape, a US official in Washington said today.

Former US President Jimmy Carter said today that he hoped that the Hamas Islamic group would act “responsibly” now that it appears to have been elected to power in Palestinian elections.

Ethiopia’s ruling party claims to have won just over half the seats in the country’s parliamentary election, but opposition leaders declared it was still too early to tell who would form the next government.

International observers toured army roadblocks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip today and Palestinian officials complained Israel was not fully complying with promises to ease travel restrictions ahead of presidential elections to replace the late Yasser Arafat.

Venezuelans voted overwhelmingly to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition that waged a long and bitter campaign to oust him.

A FORMER army general took an early lead yesterday in Indonesia’s first direct presidential election.

Former US President Jimmy Carter says a unilateral attack on Iraq would not meet his criteria of a "just war."

BONO has been nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, it emerged yesterday.

In a close and tense general election fraught with fears of political violence, more than one million Jamaicans are expected to vote today for politicians promising to stem spiralling crime and kick-start a sluggish economy.

Venezuela’s largest labour group has threatened to call a general strike to oust President Hugo Chavez, as hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of Caracas to oppose his rule.

Former US President Jimmy Carter has called on US to end its 40-year economic embargo against Cuba.

The former US president Jimmy Carter is arriving in Cuba today, for a six day visit aimed at creating closer ties between the two neighbours.

US newspaper heiress turned actress Patty Hearst said that Sara Jane Olson and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army charged with murder in a 1970s bank robbery had their ‘‘own little jihad’’ going, adding that she is ready and willing to testify against them.