After surviving a death sentence and various assassination attempts by military dictators, Kim Dae-jung, the first opposition leader to take power in South Korea (1998 to 2003), passed away on August 18.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first overseas trip to declare a new era in relations with Asia, seeking a more global framework of cooperation on common threats like financial instability, nuclear proliferation and climate change.

Venezuelans have voted to lift limits on terms in office for elected officials, allowing President Hugo Chavez to stand for re-election.

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Swiss Pierre Kraehenbuehl, director of operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, gestures as he talks about the humanitarian problems in Gaza after Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip, during a press conference at ICRC

The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Thursday night calling for an immediate and durable cease-fire between Hamas militants and Israeli forces in Gaza. The U.S. abstained from the 14-0 vote.

Over 220 people have been killed and over 400 injured through attacks that shocked the strip in the space 15 minutes. Hospitals are overloaded and unable to cope. These attacks come on top of existing conditions of humanitarian crisis:

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed big brother Wally in the '50s TV series "Leave It to Beaver," will have 1 of his abstract sculptures on display at the Louvre.

U.S. monitoring groups said that an alliance of Iraqi fighters demanded that U.S. President-elect Democrat Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, or they will be resisted.

No Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that Bush told us were in Iraq were found. Today, to the tragedy of over one million U.S. soldiers and countless innocent Iraqi civilians, there is a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Iraq