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Iran to elect MPs amid tensions with West
Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)
Iran is to vote on Friday in parliamentary elections that leaders are keen to show as a sign of defiance to the West, which is imposing tough sanctions over Teh...
Sentence for ex-Ukraine minister blasted
Mar 01, 2012 (UPI)
A prison sentence handed to former the Ukrainian internal affairs minister is more evidence the country doesn't respect human rights, critics say. Yuriy Lutsenk...
Outside View: Paradise lost
Mar 01, 2012 (UPI)
Rick Santorum recently defended a statement he made last October in which he said that after reading President John F. Kennedy's famous 1960 speech about the se...
Saakashvili challenges opponents on Russia
Feb 28, 2012 (UPI)
Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili says the country's opposition political parties need to be open and clear about their stances toward Russia. Saakashvili, ...
Gillard moves to heal Labor Party wounds
Feb 28, 2012 (UPI)
Australia's Labor government has gone into healing mode after Prime Minister Julia Gillard defeated a leadership challenge from former Foreign Minister Kevin Ru...
Freed Myanmar blogger pushes 'people's voice'
Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)
Aside from an emotional reunion with family and friends, Myanmar blogger Nay Phone Latt knew exactly what he wanted to do after his release from prison: get bac...
Putin says West seeking 'regime change' in Iran
Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of seeking "regime change" in Iran and warned Washington that Russia intended to keep its nuclear weapo...
Richard Branson weighs in on Maldives political row
Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)
British billionaire Richard Branson weighed in on the political impasse gripping the Maldives on Friday with an open letter to the new president urging him to h...
Kevin Rudd: from humble beginnings to top politician
Feb 22, 2012 (AFP)
Kevin Rudd was for years the darling of Australian politics before experiencing a rapid decline that saw him dumped as Labor leader in a brutal party-room coup ...
Outside View: Santorum's quirky reasoning
Feb 21, 2012 (UPI)
Rick Santorum thinks serving in government is the same as serving your country in the military in combat. He says he grew up around veterans and that was one of...
EP leader blasts Turk newspaper attacks
Feb 21, 2012 (UPI)
Suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party attacks on Turkish newspaper offices in France and Germany are press intimidation, a European Parliament leader says. Ria Oom...
Arab Spring navigates Islam, democracy
Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)
The Arab Spring that reshaped the region's political landscape has entered a second year, marked by fragile transitions and the empowerment of Islamists in a re...
Santorum attacks Obama's radical 'world view'
Feb 19, 2012 (AFP)
White House hopeful Rick Santorum rowed back Sunday from a brazen attack on Barack Obama's faith, reframing his earlier remarks as a criticism of the president'...
Outside View: Talking turkey in Egypt
Feb 16, 2012 (UPI)
Forty-three members of pro-democracy, non-governmental organizations), including 19 Americans, face criminal charges in Egypt following raids on their offices. ...
Outside View: Test for democratic values
Feb 15, 2012 (UPI)
The vexing problem of Iran is the most difficult, complex and arguably over the next several years, the most consequential regional security issue the world fac...
EU pledges more aid for Myanmar reforms
Feb 14, 2012 (UPI)
The European Union says it is pledging more development aid to Myanmar since its military rulers began "unprecedented" moves toward democratic reforms. EU Devel...
China, US hold 'frank' talks on Syria: Xinhua
Feb 14, 2012 (AFP)
A top Chinese official and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held "frank and in-depth" talks on Syria by telephone Monday as Chinese Vice President Xi Jinpi...
Arabs set to fail with latest Syria plan: analysts
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
An initiative calling for a joint UN-Arab League peacekeeping mission to Syria is likely to fail but raises the stakes and further isolates the embattled regime...
Behind 'coup': Islamist politics rages in sun-kissed Maldives
Feb 13, 2012 (IANS)
While the debate rages on whether the resignation of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was voluntary or a coup, there is a larger churning going on in t...
Egypt's military rulers hail low turnout in strikes
Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)
Egypt's military rulers on Sunday hailed the low turnout in strikes called by anti-army activists exactly a year since Hosni Mubarak's ouster on February 11 as ...
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