CAIRO - Egypt has decided to advance the election of a new president, giving in to the demands of increasingly violent protesters and raising hopes of a civilian government taking over the task of...

WASHINGTON - Amid an escalated tension threatening a nuclear conflict between the two nations, US President Barack Obama has said he did not believe Israel had decided on an attack on Iran to disrupt...

MOSCOW- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed need for Russia to adopt new democratic mechanisms to move forward and to be able to react swiftly to the interests and desires of large groups in...

DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country.

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LONDON - Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported.

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NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod.

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BRISTOL - Hundreds of traders and business establishments have signed up for Bristol's own currency to be launched May 21, with the backing of the Bristol Credit Union, a bank run as a...

NEW YORK - The IMF has warned of lower growth in China in view of the economic slump in Europe, and cut its forecast for the world's second largest economy this year to 8.25 per cent from 9 per cent...

ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has said he would continue intense talks with his coalition partners on austerity measures for a 130 billion-euro EU bailout plan second for...

BEIJING - China's Monday asked its airlines not to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU).

The authorities also asked the airlines not to hike freight or add other...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas politbureau Khalid Mashaal signed here Monday the Doha Declaration of the Palestinian reconciliation.

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Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report.

The terrorist group is using extremist websites to radicalise the...

The spot is supposed to be encouraging, as it focuses on the resilience of Detroit. "It's halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the...

in danger of losing already earned pension benefits if a proposed IRS rule goes into effect this June. The public comment period on the regulation ends today, with no word from the agency regarding...

On a conference call Monday afternoon, a Mitt Romney campaign surrogate--Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor--criticized Rick Santorum for being part of the "big-spending establishment...

A British court has ruled that a radical Islamist preacher described as one of Europe's leading Al-Qaeda operatives should be released on bail. Abu Qatada -- whose real name is Omar Othman --...

Romanian President Traian Basescu has named foreign intelligence chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu as the new prime minister-designate. The move comes after the previous incumbent Emil...

Swiss prosecutors have launched an initial investigation to see whether Turkey's EU minister breached the law by denying that the mass killings of Armenians a century ago were genocide. ...

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A member of the Free Syrian Army stands guard as anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a demonstration in Idlib, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. |...

Israel wants world to pressure Abbas not to sign with Hamas; PM says if Abbas moves to implement Palestinian reconciliation deal signed in Qatar, he will "abandon path of...

Egyptian crackdown on pro-democracy non-governmental groups that has enmeshed a number of US citizens could threaten the country's $1.3 billion in annual US military aid.Nineteen Americans are...

VIENNA - Iran is believed to be expanding uranium enrichment activity deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources said on Monday, a move likely to add to tension with Western powers that suspect...

Iran said that Tehran supports Syria today more than ever because the "majority of Syrians still support the [Syrian] regime," Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi said...

William Akon, a South Sudanese citizen studying government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlyah, said that "we want the government [of Israel] to show us goodness, if they don't,...

As violence continued to escalate in Syria on Monday, officials in the Israeli defense establishment predicted that Syrian President Bashar Assad was searching for a "way out" and would...

Tomorrow is Tu Bishvat. Weather permitting, trees will be planted by schoolchildren and youth movements in numerous locations throughout the country, continuing a custom which predates the...

Arguing that US President Barack Obama has been too confrontational in dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions would seem to fly in the face of reality. After all, this is the president who came...

Like nature itself, Tu Bishvat has gone though a number of different seasons throughout its existence. From its Biblical origins as a tax day on fruit trees, to its Kabbalistic transformation as a...

I have begun to change my assessment regarding a possible Israeli attack against Iran. In the past months, as the Iran chatter intensified - particularly after former Mossad chief Meir Dagan's...

In 2008 I was asked to be a national co-chairman of "Rabbis for Obama." The position might have given me access to the leader of the free world and perhaps important leverage given his...

ALMOST a year after Syria was plunged into violent and almost incomprehensible internecine conflict the world seems to have washed its hands of the problem after the Arab League observer mission...

TO stand a chance of being the Republican nominee to take on Barack Obama in this year's presidential election, Newt Gingrich had to win the South Carolina...

ANOTHER body has been found in the partially submerged Costa Concordia which capsized off the coast of Italy last week, bringing the known death toll to...

THE Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for co-ordinated bomb attacks on security forces and ensuing gun battles in the north Nigerian city of Kano that killed at least 160 people on...

THE Taliban said yesterday it had recruited an Afghan soldier who shot dead four French soldiers a day earlier, raising fears the militant group had managed to deepen its infiltration of the...

The child, believed to be about five, was one of scores of civilians to be injured during the bombing of the rebel city of Homs by Syrian government troops...

Britain should brace itself for the coldest night of the winter so far as temperatures threaten to plunge as low a -13C, the Met Office warned...

Qatada, 51, once described as 'Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe', is free to continue fighting his deportation to Jordan - where he's wanted on suspicion of a Millennium...

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said the United States had a good fix on the progress of Iran's nuclear programme and had long prepared a military response in the Gulf should it become...

MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Monday lashed out at critics of Russia's decision to veto a United Nations resolution on Syria and reiterated objections to the plan, which...

U.S. President John F. Kennedy is seen working in the Oval Office in the White House in this 1963 photo. (JFK Presidential Library/The White House/Robert Knudsen/Handout) A former White House intern...

Suspected U.S. drone kills militants in Pakistan The CIA's military drones have targeted rescue workers and mourners, an investigative team of U.K. journalists reports. "Drones have not...

The words written by Alyssa Bustamante were read aloud in court Monday as part of a sentencing hearing to determine whether she should get life in prison or something less for the October 2009 murder...

Press Trust of India says that Facebook, Google and 20 other sites were given two weeks to present further plans for policing their networks for photographs, videos or text deemed "anti-religious" or...

Among the Americans is Sam LaHood, son of US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Sam LaHood and five other Americans are in Egypt while the others have left, according to a statement from the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks edged lower on Monday as investors found little reason to extend a five-week rally on lingering uncertainty over whether Greece would accept the terms of a...

Iranian students hold up their hands as a sign of unity as they form a human chain around the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) to show their support for Iran's nuclear program in Isfahan, 450...

alleged murder-suicide orchestrated by their father , the lawyer for Susan Powell's parents said. Josh Powell, who was a person of interest in his wife's 2009 disappearance, left behind a...

Egyptian protesters clash with riot police near the interior ministry in Cairo on Monday, February 6, 2012. One protester was killed. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty...