Palash Ghosh

A deadly blast at a tourist café in Marrakesh, Morocco has killed at least 14 people and wounded about twenty others, according to media reports.

The Syrian ambassador to Britain has had his invitation to tomorrow’s Royal Wedding withdrawn after his potential presence sparked outrage among some quarters.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) that robust economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region may lead to overheating and rising inflationary pressures.

A military court in Bahrain has imposed the death sentence of four Shia Muslim protesters who were implicated in the deaths of two police officers during anti-government demonstrations last month, according to state-controlled media.

With today’s gain, the S&P 500 index has now more than doubled in value from the Mar. 9, 2009 bear market low.

A huge explosion which erupted at the al-Sabil terminal in Egypt’s North Sinai area has apparently been brought under control, according to Gasco, the company that operates the pipeline.

FOMC statement from April 27, 2011

Rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas are reportedly agreed to end their schism and form a joint unity government.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, probably the most well known civil rights activist in the U.S., believes the birther issue against President Barack Obama is purely driven by racism and represents part of a wider scaling back of civil rights gains by black Americans.

An Afghan pilot has killed eight foreign troops and a contractor at a training center near the Kabul airport, according to NATO.

This week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting should not interrupt the recent positive performance of the US financial markets.

A team of investigations from the United Nations have arrived in Tripoli, Libya to investigate allegations of human rights abuses in the strife-torn country since the civil war erupted over two months ago, according to reports.

The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said he is meeting with a delegation of Libyan officials in Caracas to seek ways to resolve the crisis in the North African country.

Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA has spent the last five days in Ankara, Turkey, on a secret visit with high-ranking Turk officials to evaluate the crisis in Syria, according to Turkish newspaper, Sabah.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called embattled Bashar al-Assad Tuesday to urge the Syrian leader to enact reforms in the country that is being torn apart by the state’s brutal crackdown against protesters, according to Agence France Presse (AFP).

The government of Bahrain has ordered the expulsion of senior Iranian diplomat over his alleged connections to a Kuwaiti spy ring, according to state-controlled media.

Following the example of Jerry Seinfeld and Robert DeNiro, comedian Chris Rock attacked Donald Trump and the Tea Party Republicans for raising questions about where President Barack Obama was born.

Habib el-Adly, the former interior minister in the regime of Hosni Mubarak, is currently undergoing trial on charges he ordered state security forces to shoot unarmed protesters during the uprising a few months ago.

As the death toll mounts in Syria amidst an increasingly brutal crackdown against anti-government protesters, the call for imposing sanctions on the country are rising in the west.

The budget deficit for cash-strapped Greece is even worse than previously thought, according revised data from the European Union’s statistical office, Eurostat.

Bashar al-Assad might be deeply hated by the people of Syria and a pariah in much of the world, but he can count on at least one friend.

Italy and France have called on the international community to cease shipping oil products to the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and also asked market operators not to purchase Libyan crude oil.

The president of Venezuela Huge Chavez has raised the minimum wage by 25 percent, effective in two stages beginning on May 1.

A senior leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group has reportedly been killed in Kunar province, Afghanistan, according to NATO.

The Obama Administration has fired back at comments made over the weekend by Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist preacher Billy Graham that the President might not have been born in the U.S.

The Turkish government has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for comments he made while commemorating the deaths of 1.5-million Armenians during World War I at the hands of the Turks of the Ottoman Empire.

The Italian air force will play a greater role in NATO’s air strike campaign in Libya, according to statement from the office of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

British security experts warn that Irish Republican terrorist groups may engineer attacks on the day of the Royal Wedding this Friday.

Donald Trump has made yet another high-profile enemy over his accusations that President Barack Obama may not have been born in the U.S.