As a maxillofacial surgeon, Jerome Sobel has brought a smile — literally — to hundreds of patients’ faces. But the Lausanne physician has a second job that is far more somber: helping terminally ill people end their lives. Sobel is president...

If U.N. peacekeepers abandon the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a new war could break out between the two Horn of Africa neighbors, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report. The U.N. border mission, or UNMEE, has already withdrawn...