Gorbachev calls for fresh Russian election

Former Soviet President Milkhail Gorbachev says recent disputed parliamentary elections should be scrapped and new elections held. ...

Obama honors Pearl Harbor Day

President Obama has issued a statement on the anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 07 Dec, 2011 ...

Mexico says Gadhafi son tried to enter country

Mexican intelligence agents have broken up a plot to smuggle the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his family into Mexico. ...

Gingrich renews food stamp attack on Obama

Newt Gingrich is reviving his attack on President Obama as "the finest food stamp president" in history, a claim that has been pro...

Cities moving beyond segregation

The emptying out of black neighborhoods bemoaned by some has created an unforeseen result generally greeted with optimism: desegregation. ...

Obama whacks Republican economics

President Obama packed a lot of arguments into his 56-minute speech yesterday, but one theme stuck out: A fierce critique of Republican econ...

India suspends welcome mat for Walmart

India, under pressure from mom-anbd-pop stores, has suspended plans to open its retail sector to foreign companies like Walmart. ...

After Serving as Somalia’s Prime Minister, Back to Work in Buffalo

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a State Transportation Department officer, spent eight months as prime minister of his native country before bein...

Pakistani President's Medical Trip Fuels Rumors

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari traveled to Dubai for medical tests on his heart after falling ill, officials and associates said ...

Olympus Board Signals Intent to Resign

The company's president, Shuichi Takayama apologized after an independent panel's report concluded that several former executives sp...

Romney vows sharp fight with Gingrich

Mitt Romney vows to make his "closing argument" for the GOP presidential nomination, including drawing some sharp distinctions wit...

Afghan president: Attack came from Pakistan

Afghanistan's president vowed to confront the government in Islamabad over a suicide bombing. 07 Dec, 2011 -- S...

With last word, Blagojevich to ask for mercy

Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday gets his final shot at trying to persuade a federal judge not to send him away for a lengthy prison term. ...

Syria's Assad denies ordering bloody crackdown

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies that he has ordered a bloody crackdown of anti-government. 07 Dec, 2011 -- ...

Police move in on Occupy San Francisco camp

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr says officers dismantled over 100 tents at an Occupy protest in a downtown plaza Wednesday morning. ...

Virtual U.S. Embassy in Iran is blocked

Residents of Tehran say that a Web-based U.S. "Embassy" to Iran has been blocked by the authorities, less than a day after it went...

Lady Gaga meets with top Obama aide

Lady Gaga didn't get a meeting yesterday with President Obama -- he was off in Kansas delivering a speech -- but the singer/songwriter d...

India Suspends Plan to Let in Foreign Retailers

Facing a harsh political backlash that has paralyzed Parliament, the governing Congress party buckled on a decision to allow major companies...

Fewer Veterans to Remember Pearl Harbor Day

After 70 years, Pearl Harbor survivors, aging and fewer in number, are giving up on major gatherings in the future. By NEIL MacF...

In Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s Officials Dismiss Protests

Syrian officials are clinging to the narrative they are besieged by a foreign plot, not confronted by a true uprising of the people. ...

Rare Attacks on Shiites Kill Scores in Afghanistan

Bombers struck Shiite religious observances on Tuesday, in the first such sectarian attacks since the fall of the Taliban. By NE...

Obama's day: A visit from Canada

Good morning from The Oval. The world changed forever on this day 70 years ago, as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and drew the United St...

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