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Russia?s President Vladimir Putin also said that both sides of the Syrian conflict must enter into peace negotiations.

Jul 09, 2012

Desai may have had the last laugh on all the naysayers; he lived to be 99 years old (in a country where the average life expectancy is only 64).

Jul 09, 2012

The widely admired opposition leader recently returned from a whirlwind tour through Europe.

Jul 09, 2012

Assad also specifically singled out the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey of supporting the ?terrorists? who are seeking his overthrow.

Jul 09, 2012

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Shah of Iran were solidly supported by the U.S., Israel, and Western Europe -- a scenario that outraged much of the populace in each country and exacerbated festering resentments.

Jul 07, 2012

Many high school graduates want to forego university altogether.

Jul 06, 2012

RAF, also called the Baader-Meinhof gang, waged a violent terrorist campaign against the West German state and especially U.S. military bases in the country during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Jul 06, 2012

He asserted that a number of major leaguers who have been elected into the Hall of Fame in recent years also did not deserve enshrinement.

Jul 06, 2012

There are, in fact, tens of millions of Muslims around the world who are ?white? -- and no one would bother to call them ?white Muslims.?

Jul 06, 2012

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who is in conflict with Basescu, is the leader of the opposition Social Liberal Union (USL) party.

Jul 06, 2012

Russia and China are not attending the Paris summit.

Jul 06, 2012

Connery grew up a hard-drinking, womanizing, football-loving brawler who sported tattoos and was employed at a number of dead-end jobs as a laborer.

Jul 06, 2012

Tlas escaped to Turkey, making him the fifteenth brigadier to have joined the rebels. He is from one of Syria?s most illustrious and famous families.

Jul 05, 2012

The works are estimated to have a combined value of some ?700 million ($867 million) .

Jul 05, 2012

To some extent, monetary easing has been accommodated because of stable-to-lower inflationary pressures.

Jul 05, 2012

Western human rights group including the British-based Amnesty International, has condemned China?s brutal policies in Xinjiang.

Jul 05, 2012

Palestinians, mostly from the West Bank, already account for about one-third of Jordan?s 6 million strong population.

Jul 05, 2012

But Russia is apparently getting tired of Assad?s slow pace of reform and the continuing violence against unarmed civilians.

Jul 05, 2012

Between January 2008 and April 2011, a total of 60 France Telecom employees killed themselves.

Jul 05, 2012

The military, which still controls one quarter of the seats in parliament, will choose a successor for Tin Aung Myint Oo.

Jul 05, 2012

Kenyan had signed a deal in June to purchase about 4 million tons of oil from the Iranian National Oil Company.

Jul 05, 2012

The victim was believed to be mentally unstable.

Jul 05, 2012

Independence Day gives us 24 hours to reconnect with these ?truths self-evident.? But it is these same truths that we increasingly take for granted.

Jul 04, 2012

According to a polling agency, 6.5 percent of the French voting public is gay, and only 4.5 percent of the electorate are practicing Catholics.

Jul 03, 2012

Islamabad will not charge any transit fees when the routes reopen.

Jul 03, 2012

The five have not been identified.

Jul 03, 2012

On the whole, Poland has at least 40,000 illegal immigrants, with Vietnamese, Pakistanis and Ukrainians accounting for the bulk

Jul 03, 2012

All but one of the children died with rapid deterioration of respiratory function, the WHO said.

Jul 03, 2012

He, along with his former partner in crime, Myra Hindley, will forever be known as the ?Moors murderers? for a series of gruesome, sadistic murders committed against children and teenagers outside of Manchester.

Jul 03, 2012