Two suspected rebel leaders accused of having committed war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region surrendered to the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, the court announced.

A deal to ease the Israeli blockade of Gaza could be in place "pretty quickly," Middle East envoy Tony Blair told CNN Wednesday.

A human rights group issued a new report detailing the widespread practice of female circumcisions in Iraqi Kurdistan, calling on Kurdish authorities to outlaw it.

A Pakistani doctor has determined that the Colorado man arrested in Pakistan while hunting for Osama bin Laden has psychological problems and has been undergoing dialysis every 20 days, said a senior Pakistani intelligence official Wednesday.