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The move will see the kyat, which was previously pegged at 6.4 kyat to the dollar, work under a managed float system set to encourage greater investment in the country.

Representatives from the Economic Community of West African States, or Ecowas, said they would decide Monday what action to take against Mali's ruling junta, which missed a deadline for ceding power to civilians.

A new poll found that women voters would choose President Obama over Mitt Romney by a two-to-one margin, giving Obama a critical advantage in contested battleground states.

Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi and the opposition National League for Democracy declared victory after Sunday's by-elections. Speaking to thousands of supporters from party headquarters in Yangon, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate hailed the success as the beginning of a new era for politics in Burma.

Russian authorities closed Moscow's Red Square Sunday and detained dozens of people trying to hold a silent anti-government protest there, prompting opposition charges that they were denying Russians their right to free assembly.

Mali's junta leader promised to reinstate the constitution from Sunday, hours before a deadline set by West African neighbors to start handing over power, and as rebels encircled the ancient trading post of Timbuktu.

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament Sunday, as her National League for Democracy claimed a near-sweep in historic by-elections that will test Myanmar's reform credentials and could convince the West to end sanctions.

Thousands of voters in Myanmar cast their votes in a historic ballot Sunday by which the country's democratic icon Aung San Suu Kyi is set to enter the parliament for the first time.

In the words of author Emile Zola when he supported Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the French Jewish officer charged with treason: “Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it — my honor!”

Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi criticized the national elections in which she is taking part, saying on Friday that widespread irregularities went beyond what is acceptable for democratic elections.

Greece will do everything possible to make a third adjustment program unnecessary, Lucas Papademos told an Italian business daily. Having said that, markets may not be accessible by Greece even if it has implemented fully all measures agreed on.

The power struggle between Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the military-appointed government has escalated with the Islamists in the parliament drawing up a no-confidence motion against the government.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's, R-Fla., endorsement of Mitt Romney Wednesday night is yet another sign that the Republican presidential race is finally coming to the end.

A group of West African president's cancelled their visit to Mali mid-flight after hundreds of pro-junta supporters rushed the runway at Bamako's airport on Thursday.

Myanmar is eager to rev up its economy with the hard currency that comes with foreign tourists, but officials question just how far to open the doors.

Ahead of next month's French presidential election, incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy has already complained that there are too many immigrants in France.

With all the talk about the Supreme Court case challenging President Barack Obama's health care legislation and the tough beating it took over the past few days, it's hard to sort through the policy and the politics.

As the Obama administration goes into damage control over an unscripted exchange between President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Mitt Romney is seeking to turn the gaffe into a broader indictment of the president's foreign policy.

Following the recent military coup, the West African regional bloc suspended Mali from participation and threatens the use of force to restore the constitutional government.

Syria has accepted a UN-sponsored peace plan, international envoy Kofi Annan said on Tuesday, as troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad raided rebel forces who have taken refuge across the border in Lebanon.

In a typically provocative statement, Ahmadinejad said Iran had no limit to expanding ties with President Bashar al-Assad's regime and that Iran would do all in its power to support this country.