Barack Obama has won the election with a comfortable margin and is set to embark on his second tenure at the White House. In a presidential race that was tight till the end with volatile opinion poll results indicating a cliffhanger, Obama has come out as a clear winner.
It's Election Night which means the end of months of campaigning, countless hours on the road and thousands of miles trekked across America for President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Naturally, there is stress as the results trickle in, so how are the candidates trying to relax?
Syrian opposition groups are meeting in Doha, Qatar, this week in attempts to form a unified coalition against President Bashar al-Assad.
The state that launched Obama's presidency in 2008 is too close to call in 2012.
Obama and Romney appear to evince rather similar foreign policy views.
Mitt Romney has just received an endorsement from a rather unlikely place: former Hillary Clinton aide Gigi Georges.
Video has surfaced that allegedly depicts Syrian rebels beating and killing government soldiers, prompting the U.N. and rights organizations to raise concerns about war crimes.
It’s the question many Democrats have been silently asking themselves for four years now: What if things had tipped the other way during the 2008 primaries?
Hillary Clinton has warned Syrian opposition forces against allowing the incursion of extremist groups into their ranks.
Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and the other five likely members of China's new top leadership group are a bit of a mystery in the West. Here's who they are, what they've done, and what they might do in power.
The captain of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George Washington Thursday said the U.S. Navy’s presence in Asia would help safeguard the “freedom of navigation,” alluding to China’s claims of sovereignty over international waters in the region, the AFP reported.
The U.S. has invested $124 million in an industrial park in Haiti as part of a project to create local jobs, attract foreign investment and rehabilitate the economy.
The third U.S. presidential debate was long on visions for the future, but short on portraying an accurate picture of complex issues/events.
Soldiers in armored vehicles were deployed in Lebanese capital Beirut and northern city of Tripoli Tuesday as domestic tensions flared over the killing of top Lebanese security official Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan in a car bomb explosion in Beirut Friday.
President Barack Obama's swing-state Ohio lead has dropped to 5 points, from 10, over GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new poll.
Paul Ryan spends the day in Florida; Ann Romney names Hillary Clinton as one of her "heroes"; the Romney camp calls a new analysis of the GOP presidential nominee's tax reform proposal "misleading and deceitful."
The U.S. State Department had employed a little-known British firm to manage the security in the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi which in turn hired unarmed Libyans to guard the consulate premises, under a deal that fell out of line with the department’s usual practice of using larger firms to watch danger zones.
In the second presidential debate Romney said it was 14 days before Obama called Benghazi an act of terror. Was he right?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she takes responsibility for the security failure at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi after last month’s violent attack that killed four U.S. nationals, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Recent back-to-back visits to the United States by the top two leaders of Myanmar (better known as Burma) -- opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and current President Thein Sein -- have brought the Southeast Asian nation back into the international spotlight.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the U.S. Thursday for not fighting insurgents in their “safe havens,” implying that insurgent activity in neighboring Pakistan remains unchecked.
It appears Secretary Hillary Clinton was doing a bit too much honoring of Christina Aguilera during an awards ceremony where she was caught staring at the singer's chest.