Latest updates and reaction following the announcement of the North Korean leader's death at 69.

A country with a history of violence, crime and corruption is effectively leaderless: when two men claim the country’s top job, it means no one is really doing it.

The politics of the business of war reaches Brazil after cartoonist highlights tear gas devices used for repressing some Bahrainis are manufactured in his country.

The armed Free Syria Army is still not a real threat to the Syrian state. Even so, there are those who are pinning their anti-government hopes on the fighters. Others who fear that strengthening them could lead to a full-blown, and brutal, insurgency.

Manning could get be jailed for life on charges ranging from theft of records to aiding the enemy.