The American Legislative Exchange Council, an influential conservative organization that helps craft state-level legislation, announced on Tuesday that it would halt its work on a Public Safety and Elections Task Force that had formulated voter identification and gun laws.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied allegations that he tried for years to sell a nuclear reactor to former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Former conservative French President Jacques Chirac will vote for the socialist Francois Hollande in Sunday's presidential elections instead of his successor and one-time protege, the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
Former guerrilla freedom fighter Taur Matan Ruak won the East Timor presidential elections held Monday, according to the preliminary results announced Tuesday.
Australia is planning to pull out most of its troops by 2013, a year earlier than planned. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced Tuesday that the mission in Afghanistan was nearly completed and most of its troops would be back home by 2013, smh.com reported.
Senate Republicans on Monday afternoon blocked President Barack Obama's Buffett Rule legislation, which would have put a 30-percent minimum tax on millionaires.
Seven years ago, The Huffington Post was largely considered to be an aggregation blog. This year, the empire and brainchild of Arianna Huffington won its first Pulitzer for David Wood's ten-part series about wounded veterans, Beyond the Battlefield.
If he holds out long enough, Angus King could become a kingmaker. The insistently independent Senatorial candidate from Maine is adding extra angst to this November's closely contested Congressional elections.
Among those banned are former dictator Hosni Mubarak's spy chief Omar Suleiman, Muslim Brotherhood chief strategist Khairat el-Shater and hard-line Islamist Hazem Abu Ismail.
I can announce that we are lifting sanctions considerably, Carr said.
East Timor is holding the presidential run-off elections Monday and more than 700,000 eligible voters are expected to cast their votes in 650 polling booths. Two former freedom fighters -Francisco Guterres and Taur Matan Ruak - are in a close race in the run-off.
Three top contenders for Egypt's presidency were scrambling to stay in the race Sunday after the authorities disqualified them.
It's been 14 months since protests forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign, but a number of his former ministers are still wielding real power, and they could holding onto it for the foreseeable future.
Hours after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden published their 2011 tax returns, Mitt Romney announced he has requested an extension for his own filing.
The military has taken over the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, in a coup d'etat on Thursday, a few weeks before the country's presidential elections.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Myanmar's democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi Friday said that sanctions on Myanmar should be suspended, not lifted, to continue the reform process.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that the European Union should suspend its sanctions as Myanmar's civilian government moves toward democratic reform.
With the election of Suu Kyi into Myanmar's parliament, some Rohingya are optimistically cautious.
A divided federal appeals court struck down a federal ban on political advertising on public TV and radio stations, a decision that could open the public airwaves to campaign ads for the November elections.
Following a controversial crackdown, Tunisia's reversal of its ban on Habib Bourguiba Avenue protests reflects some willingness to bend to the will of the populace. But allegations of police brutality show that the situation in Tunis is still far from stable.
Nikki Haley’s book “Can’t Is Not an Option” is out in stores.
Chris Dodd, a former U.S. senator who heads the Motion Picture Association of America, said there will be another push for some kind of anti-piracy legislation after the 2012 elections.
