Syria is expected to announce a vote of approval for constitutional changes on Monday when it announces the result of a referendum dismissed as a sham by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.
At least 59 Syrian civilians and soldiers were killed Sunday in bloodshed that coincided with a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2028.
With gasoline prices already approaching a distinctly unseasonal $4 a gallon in a presidential-election year, the United States is considering tapping its Strategic Petroleum Reserve as one way to control the prices of crude oil and its derivatives. Herewith is a look at past SPR loans and sales.
Italy has been fined by a European court for violating the human rights of African migrants.
The Obama administration is weighing the circumstances that could warrant tapping the nation's strategic oil reserve, aware that supply disruptions from Iran could harm the global economy, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Friday.
Western and Arab countries on Friday will demand that Syria allow aid to be delivered to desperate civilians, despite the lack of international resolve to intervene to end a crackdown on foes of President Bashar al Assad's regime. Violence during the uprising has claimed thousands of Syrians' lives.
On Thursday Al Jazeera was named as News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards. But despite its numerous plaudits and fans the Qatar-based network has virtually no presence in the U.S.
Venezuela's economy grew last year, after two straight years of GDP contraction.
Ron Paul is used to receiving passionate reactions from the audience when he talks about Iran and foreign policy at Republican debates, and it was no different in Arizona Wednesday night.
In recent past, hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec carried various cyber attacks on different government and non-government Web sites. The reason behind all these attacks, as claimed by the hackers themselves, is to show their gripe against corruption, injustice, oppression, and violence. Here's an infographic detailing the moves done by Anonymous and their fellow hackitivists during 2011.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned on Wednesday after a row with fellow party member Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
A Syrian shelling of the opposition stronghold Homs has left two war journalists, Marie Colvin of British newspaper - The Sunday Times - and French photographer Rémi Ochlik, dead, and several other journalists injured, according to various reports.
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham threw the Syrian gauntlet down to President Barack Obama, saying that anti-Assad protesters should be armed by the U.S.
The Zwai claim that the Tebu are reinforced by mercenaries from neighboring Chad.
Monaco's Prince Pierre Casiraghi was bloodied in a fight Saturday at the Double Seven nightclub in New York City's Meatpacking District. However, the business man and former nightclub owner Adam Hock, who has been charged with assault in the incident, claims the 24-year-old son of Princess Caroline and grandson of former Hollywood actress Grace Kelly started the brawl.
Keen to boost his notoriously bullish image, Putin said in a newspaper article that Russia would spend 23 trillion roubles ($770 billion) over a decade to modernize the former superpower's armed forces, warning of the need to protect the country from new regional and local wars sparked by foreign powers.
After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangling and an assassination attempt, Yemenis will draw a line under Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule Tuesday by voting in an uncontested election to install his deputy as president.
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.
African Union Chairman Thomas Boni Yayi will visit some of the continent's conflict areas -- including Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, and Libya -- for direct talks, an aide said on Saturday.
Algerian security forces have found a large cache of weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles, which they believe were smuggled in from neighboring Libya, a security source briefed on the discovery told Reuters on Saturday.
The government of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is emerging as a rare supplier of diesel to Syria, potentially helping the government of the Middle Eastern country's Bashar al-Assad fuel its military in the midst of a bloody crackdown on civilian protests and undermining Western sanctions.
