ELECTIONS

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who recently took over the charge of the Finance Ministry, has set up an expert committee to review and finalize the controversial General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), which the foreign investors say are not investor-friendly.

As Thai citizens become increasingly involved in their country's political processes, the very presence of a dynastically appointed king begins to look more and more anachronistic.

As the son of Indian immigrants, Jindal would ease Romney’s image of being the candidate of rich, white, country club WASPs.

Although Sen. John McCain had indicated he would support the Democratic-backed DISCLOSE Act, he is opposing the bill along with the rest of the Senate GOP.

Though former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she has no interest in being vice president, reports have surfaced that she is the front runner on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's ticket.

In an anonymous letter, a former member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has criticized Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and pointed to signs of unrest within Tehran's elite military forces.

Events in Libya and Egypt highlight the potential benefits of United States human rights promotion -- both for the U.S. and for people across the world -- as well as the downsides of America's failure to pursue that task.

The Taliban, and its reclusive leader, Mullah Omar, are likely to ignore Hamid Karzai?s entreaties.

The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Beijing to honor the ASEAN's code of conduct formed to resolve the territorial tensions in the South China Sea during a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) conference in Cambodia.

As President Barack Obama pivots to make income inequality a focus of his campaign, income and wealth disparities are widening to alarming proportions.

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, on a near party-line vote of 244-185, passed a bill on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that he will respect a court ruling that overturned his attempt to reinstate the lower house of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the Military Council last month prior to the Islamist leader's election victory.

The Nigerian Supreme Court ruled that the sale of a Nigerian aluminum enterprise to Russian conglomerate RUSAL was in fact illegal. Instead, Nigeria's ALSCON should have gone to the original highest bidder: a U.S. firm called BFI.

Although Florida's school prayer bill -- technically known as an inspiration message law -- technically went into effect on Sunday, state officials say only one school district has even considered implementing the law.

Libya?s new ?liberal? government may distance itself from the West and from NATO, which helped rebels free the country from Moammar Gadhafi.

Crude oil futures declined Tuesday as the offshore oil and gas workers strike in Norway ended overnight after the government's intervention.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez declared himself fully recovered from cancer Monday, three months before an election in which he is seeking another six-year term.

After tens of thousands of protesters in Mexico City demonstrated Saturday against President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto's victory in the July 1 elections, the leftist opposition party of runner-up candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said it will appeal the results.

The White House has invited Egypt's recently elected president Mohammad Mursi to visit the U.S. in September, as the latest Obama administration effort to reach out to Egypt's newly empowered Islamists.

The long-anticipated showdown between Egypt's military and its new president -- the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi -- has opened, with Morsi, the SCAF and the Supreme Court heading into a three-way contest.

The widely admired opposition leader recently returned from a whirlwind tour through Europe.