Police and regime militia patrols fanned out in Damascus' Mezze district Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on the capital, opposition activists said.
Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on Damascus, opposition activists said.
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Ethnic Latvians think the vote represents an effort to compromise the nation’s independence from its former overlords, the Russians.
Maryland's House of Delegates on Friday approved by a razor-thin margin a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry, putting it on the road to joining six other states where gay and lesbian nuptials are legal. The Maryland vote came shortly after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a similar measure.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul Friday criticized the criminalization of Marijuana in Washington state. He was speaking at a campaign event in the state.
While threats that could pull down global economy are never far away, recent data depict a brightening outlook according to IHS, a global business and economic information provider.
Congress passed legislation on Friday that extends a tax cut for 160 million workers through December. The new law continues long-term jobless benefits, handing President Barack Obama a major victory in a year in which his re-election is at stake.
Of nearly 200,000 cameras ordered to monitor upcoming Russian elections, the first to go online and begin broadcasting to the www.webvybory2012.ru Web site were found to have been DDoS attacked, Reuters news agency reported. Hackers upset with December elections they consider to have been fraudulent may be responsible. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Siberian town of Novosibirsk to inspect election monitoring cameras he ordered installed at over 90,000 polling stations ahead of...
Zimbabwe reacted strongly to the European Union's decision to renew sanctions on President Robert Mugabe's government on Friday. Despite the lift on travel bans and asset freezes on 51 people connected to Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, Zimbabwean leadership is still furious that the illegal sanctions are still in place .
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.
