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The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate passed the payroll-tax extension on Friday morning, with congressional Democrats and Republicans putting aside their differences until after the November election to advance the economic package.

Kosovo celebrates its fourth anniversary of Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on Feb. 17. Even after four years of its UDI, the Albanian majority country is still to make any head way towards development or in ensuring stability in the region. The biggest challenge it faces includes its conflict with Serbia, which don't recognize Kosovo's independence and the resistance from several of the European Union countries that oppose its inclusion in the Union.The territorial confl...

A deal to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million U.S. workers through 2012 headed on Thursday toward congressional approval as Democratic and Republican leaders rallied support for the bipartisan agreement.

Greece’s finance minister Evangelos Venizelos has suggested some countries in the bloc want Greece to leave the eurozone.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy used his brand new Twitter account to official announce that he would seek re-election during France's 2012 presidential race.

A payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, set to expire at the end of this month, would be extended through December under a bipartisan deal announced early on Thursday by U.S. congressional leaders.

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has released his four years of tax returns Wednesday. His rate of tax returns for the years 2007-10, which is between 25.4 percent and 28.5 percent, is quite normal. It is much higher than Mitt Romney's 15 percent of tax rate but lesser than Newt Gingrich's projected 33 percent.

Greece expressed hope it was within days of finally securing a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout to ease its debt crisis but markets reacted sceptically on Thursday as acrimony grew between Athens and eurozone partners led by Germany.

Greece expressed hope it was within days of finally securing a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout to ease its debt crisis but markets reacted skeptically on Thursday as acrimony grew between Athens and euro zone partners led by Germany.

European Union finance ministers will meet in Brussels to finalise Greece's second bail out deal.

Greece expressed hope Wednesday that it can secure its second EU/IMF bailout in as many years and a deal on easing its debt burden next week, but its euro zone peers made clear the months of increasingly ill-tempered argument are not quite over yet.

Negotiators Wednesday evening reached a sweeping tax cut deal that provides a victory to President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats in Congress and frees Republicans of an issue that threatened to stalk them to the November elections.

U.S. lawmakers Wednesday reached a sweeping tax cut deal that provides a victory to Democrats and frees Republicans of an issue that threatened to stalk them to the November elections.

Even though he is performing poorly in polls, President Sarkozy announced Wednesday he will seek another term.

According to statistics released by the Pew Center of the States, at least 1.8 million dead people are currently registered to vote. Additionally, 24 million voter registrations have some serious errors. While there is little suspicion of voter fraud, many people have pointed out the serious consequences of using such a flawed system.

Earlier today Sarkozy announced his official slogan La France Forte! (Strong France!), and in response French twitter users flooded the site with their opinions and criticisms of Sarkozy and the slogan, causing France Fort to temporarily trend worldwide.

Egypt's largest political party has sided with the ruling regime in a dispute over American workers facing criminal charges for their work with non-governmental organizations.

Cynicism towards Greece abounds across Europe.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday he plans to step down when his term ends on June 30, raising questions whether the United States will insist on holding on to a job that has always gone to an American.

People registered to vote in multiple states; people remaining on official voting rolls after they have died; people denied access to the ballot box because of a misspelled name or mismatched address. These are a few of the implications of widespread flaws in voter registration identified in a new study by the Pew Center on the States.

Eurozone finance ministers Wednesday scrapped a planned meeting to be held in Brussels that they had called to approve the new bailout and a related debt restructuring plan.