BISSAU, Malick Rokhy Ba - Voters went to the polls in Guinea-Bissau Sunday for a presidential runoff between two former heads of state of the coup-prone West African nation, whose veteran leader was...
LONDON- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wished French President Nicolas Sarkozy a "speedy recovery" after he collapsed Sunday while jogging and was rushed to hospital.
"The prime minister has...
AMSTERDAM- Demonstrators in cities around the globe joined protests Saturday denouncing human rights abuses in Iran and showing support for opponents of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad....
SAN FRANCISCO - Sarah Palin burst into the US political spotlight last year as John McCain's presidential running mate, but on Sunday the polarizing governor of Alaska steps down, with questions...
TEHRAN, Jay Deshmukh - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caved in to hardliners and sacked his controversial deputy on Saturday, in a first major blow to forging a new government since his...
SULAIMANIYAH, Shwan Mohammed - Iraq's Kurds cast their votes Saturday in presidential and legislative polls expected to confirm the grip on power of regional leaders locked in dispute with Baghdad...
NORWICH, Ben Stansall - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party on Friday suffered yet another embarrassing by-election defeat in the first poll triggered by a recent scandal over...
WASHINGTON- The US administration is to transfer a second inmate from the Guantanamo Bay prison for trial in a US federal court, legal documents said Friday.
Mohammed Jawad, who was arrested as a...
NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith - US law enforcement agents on Thursday arrested dozens of politicians and rabbis in an anti-corruption sweep alleging money laundering, extortion, bribery and even...
WASHINGTON- The State Department hit back Thursday at North Korea's denunciation of Hillary Clinton as "by no means intelligent" and her remarks on denuclearization as "vulgar," saying those terms...