Spurred by a massive drought in the Horn of Africa, the famine in Somalia has already left tens of thousands of people dead. Making matters worse, Somalia's ineffective government has been unable to counter the crisis on its own, and is desperately relying on the humanitarian efforts of foreign powers.
A principal point of the dispute – the right of airline workers to unionized – remains unresolved.
India's cabinet approved on Monday a bill to reform land acquisition, aimed at giving farmers a better deal while helping fast-track industrialisation in Asia's third-largest economy.
Ghana's 45,000 barrel-per-day state-run Tema oil refinery shut its main crude distillation unit on August 28 after running out of feedstock, two sources with knowledge of the plant's operations told Reuters on Monday.
Palin did not declare her candidacy for president, nor did she endorse any of the existing field of GOP candidates.
Sarkozy, who has attempted to establish his credentials as a 'global statesman' by, among other things, aggressively pushing for a NATO bombing campaign in Libya, remains controversial and unpopular in France.
Presidential contender Mitt Romney tried to win over doubters from the conservative Tea Party movement on Sunday, telling them he was the Republican candidate who can beat back the heavy hand of government and create jobs.
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It should be a wildly interesting and lively political saga in France over the next year.
The former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned back to France on Saturday, after getting his passport back.
There are growing concerns about how the interim Transitional National Council (TNC) will guide the war-ravaged country going forward.
A newly-formed congressional panel on deficit reduction next week will kick off months of arduous negotiations that will be closely watched by financial markets hoping for a deal that puts the United States on an improved fiscal path.
A major Republican-linked fundraising group has amassed $25 million this year to finance attacks on President Barack Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections.
Employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging consumer confidence discouraged already skittish U.S. businesses from hiring, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary stimulus to aid the economy.
France's Socialists are distancing themselves from Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the ex-IMF chief, once their best-placed presidential contender but now dogged by sex assault accusations, prepares to return from the United States.
Moammar Gadhafi is in a desert town outside Tripoli planning a counterattack, a Libyan military chief said Thursday morning.
Diehard followers of Moammar Gadhafi are refusing to surrender, raising the prospect of new fighting in Libya when an ultimatum expires after this week's Eid holiday.
Forget the struggling economy. There's one U.S. industry -- Big Politics -- that is looking ahead to a record year in 2012.
Those who favor more government spending to fix the economy are neck and neck with those who wish to cut the budget deficit without delay.
Republicans in the House of Representatives want to create jobs by killing regulations on companies and passing tax breaks for small business and government contractors, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Monday.
Tropical storm Nanmadol headed for China on Monday, losing strength after drenching southern and eastern Taiwan, forcing evacuations, shutting businesses and disrupting transport, but causing no major damage or casualties.
Stetson Kennedy, who managed to infiltrate the highly secretive Ku Klux Klan 60 years ago and expose its workings and secrets, died on Saturday. He was 94 and had been in hospice care at a hospital near St. Augustine, Fla.
